What We Love to Do

These days, the kids are into a couple new things:  Ronan is into toy cars.  He loves to line them up, and often organizes them by color, too.

Both of the boys love bicycling to the Hazelwood green to see if there's any children out playing.  Hazelwood is a street right behind our house, and there's a greenspace in the middle of some houses there.  There's several children who live over there, so it's fun to go around and see if anyone is out playing football (soccer).  There's a few girls who've taken a shine to Ronan, too.  Ronan, the little charmer that he is, loves showing off for the girls and making them chase him around the green.  ;)

 Connor plays games on the computer on lazy mornings when Dad is catching the headlines.  

 Ronan's groupees: Abby, Emma, and Lynn.

Connor playing football and Ronan wanting a part of the action.  

Halloween Fun

Hi Everyone,
This post will be mostly pics from Halloween, and the lazy morning after Halloween.  (The kids here have a week-long, mid-term break overlapping Halloween.  Isn't that a great idea!?!)

Connor's "totally into the Middle Ages," as he puts it, so went as a knight. And of course, anticipating mini-Connor would want to be a mini-knight, I dressed him appropriately.  ;)

 At Connor's friend's Luke's house, with Luke's sister, Elizabeth.

 Bringing the Halloween Party back home for our roasted sausages tradition.  

 Fireworks and bonfires are a big part of celebrations here.  Ronan was a bit scared.  But the stores also sell Chinese laterns, which you light and release into the sky.  

We thought they were really cool, so we bought several.

 Our own private bonfire.

 Trying to light the bonfire proved super tricky because it was so windy.

 Fly away, latern, fly away!

 But after several false starts--including one trip into our back porch!-- the latern finally settled onto our clothes line.  Not such a good place for it; we had to take it down in the end.  Oh well, another night. ;)

 Playing Connor's version of LEGO Heroica the morning after.

On All Soul's Day, November 1st, David came over and we enjoyed a traditional tea cake made with lots of raisins, called Barm Brac.  (Did I spell that right?)

Hope you had a good Halloween, too.  Cheers, everyone!  :)