Halloween is upon us. I am a bit of a Halloween scrooge. Not a German thing. But of course it is a USA thing and we didn't want to spoil it for our children or the grandchildren.
I like the art though. Can't help it. When I visited our friend Julie at Manor House (on October 26) I had to admire the decorated pumpkins. This was my favorite So clever how they used the stem to make a very special nose.
Friday the 28. we helped out with the grandchildren across the river. The school was letting out early. Before we left to get them we set up a treasure hunt in the house and took the boys to our house.
It was a lot of fun for us all. I had found the game on the internet and printed the 2 pages with 12 clues. All we had to do cut them apart and hide them accordingly.
The last clue led to the freezer for treats. Little individual ice creams! We know they love those.
Omi and Papa have lots of other games too. The big box of dominoes is sometimes used to set up a domino chain.
Caleb decided to do this ...
... while his brothers played with the magnetic darts upstairs.
Caleb laid down next to his chain to find out that it was twice as long as he was tall.
Oh yes, the old train tracks were "schlepped" down too. They had not played with those for a long time but had fun this afternoon.
They didn't even have to clean it up because they were coming back the next day to stay the night and wanted to play more with it.
On Friday in the car they kept asking whether they could visit Ms Julie. So yes, I set it up for the next day. Ms Julie expected them when we stopped after we had picked them up. We went into one of the community rooms and she asked them to make some bookmarks for her friends. She had just started a new book club where she lived. I had also brought a choco-pumpkin cupcake for each.
Yes, this was a fun weekend for all.
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