As can be seen in the video clip below, Halloween has descended upon us. Nathan's Preschool had a Halloween party and parade for the children on Thursday morning. It was very well organized with them requesting that parents refrain from dressing the children in any scary outfits (such as corpses etc). No masks and no weapons were allowed either! This way the children could enjoy dressing up without being exposed to the darker side associated with this event. Nathan had an absolute ball which can clearly been seen in the video below!
On Friday, it was time to hit the neighborhood sidewalks in search of candy for the first time ever! Nathan and I headed down our street at the allotted time, and I must say that Nathan fared very well! We only visited about one eighth of the houses in our development until we turned back home. It seemed that Nathan had more fun handing out the candy to our fiendish visitors! Unfortunately, he was only handing out one piece of candy to each child when we had budgeted for about 3 to 4 pieces per person. This left us with a surplus of candy (come to think of it, perhaps Nathan knew what he was doing!)
On Saturday, we took Nathan to the hospital that Liesel will be delivering his brother. They had a special course for big brothers and sisters, called Sibling Celebration. The instructor was a nurse, who works in the postpartum section of the hospital. She read the group of about 10 children a story, and showed them a video before demonstrating how to hold a new born baby on some life-like dolls. The children seemed to learn a lot and then the highlight was when the nurse took them to see a brand new baby girl born earlier that day. She made the children stand around the baby and got them all to sing "Happy Birthday" to her! It was sweet and Nathan thoroughly enjoyed himself. The fact that they gave the children cookies and chocolate milk only reinforced the positive mood of the group! At the end of the hour long "course" Nathan received his certificate indicating that he is a suitable qualified BIG BROTHER!
On Sunday afternoon - it was a beautiful Fall day, so we decided to put Nathan's bike in the trunk and drove to the Westlake Recreation Center. There is a lovely tarred cycling/walking/running track meandering through a tree-lined park. Nathan's confidence in bike-riding has grown immensely and soon he was almost out of sight as his little legs propelled him down the path! Today was also the first day after we have changed back to Eastern Standard time. This means that all our clocks were turned back an hour - which translates into sunsets around 6pm now compared to sunsets at 7pm on Friday and Saturday..... So as the sun drifted toward the horizon -- the temperature began to fall and that signalled that it was time to head home!
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