We decided Avery's school was just too academically focused. They seemed to never do anything fun (no art or anything was coming home except writing numbers and letters over and over). She also didn't like it anymore. So she's home with me and Noah now. Which has been nice...and challenging! Especially when Steve was gone, it is a little trying having both kids home all day everyday....no break at all (neither one naps anymore and no break when the hubby gets home when he's gone). I sort of miss having the school schedule which made the day go by sooo much faster. I just run out of ideas on what to do sometimes! Noah entertains himself very well, but it has been a little bit of a struggle for Avery. She needs more of my attention it seems. Overall, I love that I have all this time with them since Avery will be going to kindergarten (full day) next Fall. This is our last low key kind of year where I'll get so much time with her.
Since Steve will be heading to Liberia, I've decided to head to Ohio in May for about two months. I'll stay until Steve gets home and "picks us up" to go back. That's what I did during his last deployment. Tickets home would set us back about $6,000 for just me and the kids (no, thanks), so I'll be trying out the space A thing. Pray for us!!
It's about time I share some Halloween pictures. Avery was strawberry shortcake, and Noah was going to wear the super cute Hungry Caterpillar costume that my sister made Connor last year, but the slow mail didn't get it here in time. That's ok...he'll wear it next year. I just stuck him in a football jersey as a football player. It worked. Again, Steve was gone, so it was all low key. I invited our Japanese neighbors' grandkids to come trick or treating on base with us, since they had never been before. They LOVED it. So did my kids. It was fun to see. Our neighbors had us over for dinner before hand. Curry and fruit. I brought rice krispy treat pumpkins. Unfortunately, I took no pictures of the trick or treating and not really any of Noah.
As i said before, Halloween was low key given Steve's absence. I wasn't about to go cutting off my fingers trying to carve a pumpkin (normally Steve's job), so I just got a pumpkin and let each kid make a face on it with these fun stickers we had. Each kid decorated one side of the pumpkin.
Noah's pumpkin face:
Avery's pumpkin face:
And finally, these pictures I took with my phone at our neighborhood "Panda" park just reminded me of fall. There were a bunch of leaves on the ground and the kids loved throwing them around. That and blowing bubbles with the cool blowers we got at the 100 yen store.=)
