Weekly update

Just a few photos from the last week. Peter learned the joy of candy apples. A little tricky to eat, but oh so worth it.



This was Gaëlle's 2nd candy apple of the season. This time she tried a caramel apple. Yummy!!



We really try not to set the anticipation level too high in the house. So we kept Halloween as low key as possible. We didn't carve the pumkin until Sunday. Gaëlle had already done one in school but she was game to try another one. The faces as they scooped out the goo was priceless.



Robin gently guided their hands through the carving process. They listened well and did a great job.



Gaëlle was a fairy and Peter was a pirate. We just used things we had in the house for costumes. I think Peter was a little disappointed we didn't have a spiderman costume. Maybe next year, we'll try to do a little more in the costume category.

Robin and Emily took the kids around to the local houses while Kaylin and I stayed at home and oohhhed and aahhhed at the little kids who came to our house. There were some real cuties.

Peter and Gaëlle got the hang of running up to houses right away. They came home and Gaëlle was ready to go out again. She wasn't finished. But we thought they both had more than enough. Gaëlle has already been cut off from her candy once. If she obsesses again and disobeys again, I'm afraid we'll have to dispose of her loot locally. That's police lingo for "mommy and daddy and the 2 big sisters will eat it." So, she's controlling herself as far as her candy goes.



Speaking of police, Robin has never worn his uniform around the kids. They've been to his workplace so they've seen other people in uniforms, but not daddy. So this week, Robin wore his uniform one day when he picked up the kids from school. Gaëlle ran out of school and looked all around but couldn't see her dad. You could see the look of confusion on her face. Both kids had lots of questions for him like, "Why do you need a gun?"

When I came home, Peter told me he saw daddy in his "costume". So funny. He also told his teacher the next day that daddy was wearing his "costume".