Halloween with Miss B

 The boys enjoyed their kindergarten Halloween party!  The "stations" included a pumpkin beanbag toss, making each other into mummies with toilet paper, decorating cookies, and making mummies with popsicle sticks.  :)

Fall Fun Night

 Fall Fun Night at the elementary school lived up to its name.  We had a great time. James loved the games (mini-golf, though he refused instruction on how to properly hold the club; mini-basketball, ring toss), and Matthew loved that there was apple cider and ice cream.  :)  They both throughly enjoyed the magician, and they also were happy to run into some of their kindergarten friends.

Carving Time

 Mike is taking the pumpkin business seriously this year!

Hi-Yah

 The boys have been taking a one day a week after school karate class for the last month.  On Sunday there was a special class and belt ceremony that parents could attend.  It was very cute.  (The boys seem to enjoy karate, but they don't have much skill yet -- indeed, watching them in class made Mike and I think that we need to get them doing more physical activity!)

The high point of the class for them was getting to break a board -- they were both very proud of that.  And they got their first "promotion" (to second-degree white belt, indicated by the stripes on their belts.)  Matthew, of course, really wants to get to orange belt, and keeps telling us that if he keeps going to karate, he'll get it by first grade.

Boo, it's the Zoo

 We went to the Buffalo Zoo on Saturday.  They were having a Halloween event, and I think the boys enjoyed the decorations and the playground even more than seeing the animals!  The zoo is nice, although the spaces for the animals are pretty small, which is sad.  We did get a couple up close and personal moments -- the sea lion bounced up and almost touched our hands (because the trainer happened to come out just then and he thought it was feeding time!)  And then the lionness was napping right next to the glass.  :)  The baby gorilla was also really cute.

James also enjoyed throwing leaves with a couple of other kids (and their mom told me that their kindergartener has three hours of homework a night, which sounds completely insane.)

Matthew meets a dementor