Fall photo shoot

   

Fall not, O leaves

'Tis a beautiful time of year
In the Northwest
When leaves
Change color
But when they fall
Then it's not so nice
When you have to rake them all.

(Having a blog + the concept of poetic license gives one the freedom to spout such pearls of wisdom).

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Halloween 2013

Halloween turns out to be a big fancy dress event for the kids. Between all the playgroup, school, and church events, Mika got to be Pirate Izzy (from Jake and the Neverland Pirates) and Red Riding Hood, while Yo opted to consistently feature as his current favorite superhero, Superman.

   

Playgroup buddies

Gymnastics

Mika started gymnastics again this fall; big bro wanted in as well, so he was added to the ticket. They both enjoy this quite a bit.

Vancouver & Victoria

In late Sep we headed back to Canada for the second time this year; round 2 was to visit Vancouver & Victoria.

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Maker Faire

In September we went to the local Maker Faire in town, and had a great time getting hands-on with a whole variety of cool toys.

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The many faces of M

    

    

Writing

The kiddos are starting to get better at actually writing things. Yo has started to write "stories", which are actually pretty good when read phonetically.

The first legible card from both of them:

We recently discussed going out for dinner one evening after I got back from work, and I guess he had an urge to start his chronicles at a tender age. Pulled out a piece of paper, and started writing:

Needs to work on spaces between the words, but this the gist:

Pumkpin,        Written By Yohan
Pumpkin
My family and me live in a
house and we got to a restaurant
in the night
when my dad comes from
work.