Monday there was a special Science Fair like presentation at Gideon’s school. It wasn’t put on by students, but was more of a demonstration/info session for the students. We went to this and got to see/do a couple of cool things like extracting strawberry DNA. There were a lot of people though and Gideon wasn’t really into the crowds and lines. At home Cecilia picked Dora. Due to the late night they each had to pick one parent/story combo for the night.
Gideon had me read him Fly Guy and Buzz Boy. This is the latest book he got from the library at school.
Cecilia had Heather read Walter the Baker.

Tuesday Gideon worked on the color book from his class like a champ. He must have worked on that thing for an hour or more. For a show Gideon picked Henry Hugglemonster after deciding Dirty Jobs wasn’t the right show. (He did start by wanting to watch it though, for around 5 minutes.)
It was another night of reading from the same book for the kids. On the bright side this time wasn’t reading the same story though, just from the same book. Cecilia picked the Richard Scarry collection. Gideon picked the Hot Wheels book.

Wednesday we all went to Cecilia’s last dance class. She really enjoyed the intro to dance series and we may revisit dance and gymnastics as things for her to do in the future. We had dinner out afterwords and Cecilia saw a girl from daycare, who she spent 5 minutes calling out to. Cecilia picked Dora the Explorer for the nighttime show.
Cecilia read Flu Guy and Buzz Boy with Heather while I read some of the Tonka Phonics books with her.
Gideon read his class book about what they want to be when they grow up with each of us. Nobody will be surprised to know that his entry was airplane pilot.

Thursday was just this side of a disaster. We’ve had a few busy days and hadn’t gotten pumpkins yet. Apparently there is a pumpkin shortage this year. In hindsight we should have keyed in on this due to the CSA but didn’t. I made a few calls and went on an exploratory run while Heather helped Gideon finish the color book from school. I found pie pumpkins at Festival. On the bright side when I excitedly told the kids we were going to try out small pumpkin for carving this year since there weren’t big ones anywhere Gideon responded with an excited “We’ve never made small pumpkins before!” So the night was more or less saved excepting Heather’s massive headache. Also, it was getting late and Cecilia was getting really touchy. After late showers Gideon picked Henry Hugglemonster and the kids went to bed with no stories.

Friday was Halloween of course. Cecilia was excited almost like it was Christmas. Heather helped with both class parties, bringing their costumes to them. I only mention it as I felt a little bad when dropping Gideon off and all the kids were putting their costumes on at the day care. (2 hour late start school day.) Heather took the trick or treating this year. They walked the entire neighborhood and found a very low house participate rate. The kids had fun and felt like they got enough though. What they didn’t feel like they got enough of was handing out candy. They got to the point of sitting out on the front step looking for people to come by. They only were involved in handing out candy to about 4 people, and one more came by while they were out. Handing out candy is something they seem to like more than getting it.
Cecilia picked Henry Hugglemonster and due to the late hour we had no stories.

Saturday Gideon picked Jake and the Neverland Pirates after we watched the beginning of the latest season of Amazing Race. It was a decent end to a long day which saw us getting the main level mostly cleaned, with the kids help, and a park trip after church.
Cecilia got the Cupcake Fairy from Heather and the Sophia Halloween Ball story from me.
Gideon had both of us read him his new Creepy Carrots book.

Sunday. What a day. We tried to get to the 10:30 showing of the family movie series, but ended up running just a few minutes later than we wanted to deal with. That ended up landing us at Tamarack Nature Center for a little bit of outside fun. After that was Applebees for lunch and up to see Rio 2. Once Cecilia figured out it was “blue birds” she about jumped up and down for joy. We finished the day with time at the indoor and outdoor play areas at the Shoreview Community Center and showers before bed. Cecilia picked Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
Gideon had both of us read him the latest book from his class. This one was a color recognition one of some kind. They each wrote a color and animal for what they saw.
Cecilia picked Gideon’s Jake and the Neverland Pirates Trick or Treasure book from me while Heather read her the class book of Gideon’s.