Halloween Party at Isaac's school

Isaac's preschool had a Halloween party on Wednesday and I helped out with the morning activities.

Here's the update on weekly craziness. . .

Oct.27-Nov 2, 2008
Isaac really enjoys the music class that we go to on Mondays. There’s a song about animals waking up in the morning and Mr. John always asks Isaac what animal he wants to sing about and he says “a dragon!”

Isaac always insists on pushing the Basement or Sub-basement button in the elevator. He also likes pushing other numbers when he can get away with it too.

The weather was miserable outside on Tuesday—the world series game even got postponed in the middle of the game because of the constant rain. I was surprised that 3 moms actually made it to Spanish class. It was small but we had a good time learning the playtime ASL/Spanish vocab.

Wednesday morning I took the boys to the Please Touch museum and they had a blast. We discovered the playdough/painting room and they were in heaven.

Thursday was a Halloween party at Isaac’s school and I volunteered at their mini “carnival.” A few of the mom’s set up stations like cookie decorating, mask making, stories, etc. I had the kids play a basketball game and read a Halloween story with them. It was fun to see Isaac interacting with the other kids in his preschool class. The teacher brought some dry ice and poured root beer on it inside a plastic black cauldron for the kids and they all thought that was magical. At the end when all of the mom’s came to pick everyone up, the kids sang a couple of cute Halloween songs. I was impressed at how well Isaac knew the words! He was a very cute pirate.

Thursday afternoon I took the kids over to campus and we helped out at the bake sale that Mandy and I organized for Kids Club. James distracted the kids so I could try to sell what was left of the cookies, muffins, etc. I was amazed to do the finally tally and realize that we had raised over a thousand dollars!!! $1055 to be exact. Last year they made $500 so we doubled expectations. Pretty cool. And then the Phillies won the world series early Thursday night—definitely a day for celebration.

Friday was kind of a rough day—I think I was feeling grumpy from lack of sleep and a long week of not seeing that much of James. We muddled through the morning—usually our Chilean friends come over, but with the craziness in the streets due to the Phillies parade, it didn’t work out. The afternoon got better when I took the kids over to the science museum. We discovered a new section we hadn’t seen before called Sir Isaac Newton’s workshop.

Our ward had a trunk or treat party on Saturday so the boys got to indulge in the Halloween festivities at least one more time. Before the dishing out of the candy though there was a get together inside with chili, corn muffins and fruit. The boys ran around the church and Levi got a hold of two corn muffins and managed to distribute the crumbs in an artistic pattern through the building hallways. Needless to say I spent a good chunk of time vaccuming it all up.

On Sunday I helped teach the 10 and 11 year old girls in primary. As part of the lesson I asked them what they would do to get ready if Jesus was coming to their house. A couple of them gave basic answers like clean their rooms and be nice to their brothers and sisters, but one of the girls said, “Well, the first thing I would do is make popcorn. Then I would get out some candy—but not too much candy because Jesus wouldn’t like that. Then I would find some good movies to watch with him.”

Levi is all about participating in Isaac’s role playing games these days. He’ll say “I’m Buzz Lightyear and your Woody and Isaac is T-Rex.” He also likes to be baby Jaguar and have me be Diego.