Easter Lead-Up

Here are some of the things we did leading up to Easter.

We crafted:

We hunted eggs and smashed cascarones at Roz-Mina:

We dyed eggs:

 We made chocolate bird nests and a carrot-shaped cheese ball:

The end.

School Christmas Party

Tuesday night was Spencer's Christmas Party at Roz-Mina. First everyone listened intently as a former student (or someone's big brother?) played his violin.

Then the students and teachers sang some songs for us that they rehearsed all month. The video below is dark but will give you the flavor. Spencer was such a precise bell jingler.

 

And then, guess who showed up? Santa! Though after careful inspection, Spencer determined that he was not the real Santa, but just one of his helpers. I think he was right about that. But he did have a toy in his sack just for Spence.

After that we ate dinner outside. The kids had so much fun running around outside in the dark. It was a sweet and simple little celebration.

Halloween Part I

Spencer and Daddy went to the Roz-Mina Halloween party last night. I had already made plans to accompany Steffani to meet John Taylor of Duran Duran (!) because I thought the party was going to be during the day like it was last year. So that means I have now missed both of our Roz-Mina Halloween parties, as I was in MN last year.

Anyway, Spencer was a skeleton. Love the slicked-back hair! The kids trick-or-treated and there was a potluck dinner. It was a good warmup for the big night Wednesday.

We are usually a homemade costume family, but decided this year since Spencer wanted to be a skeleton, we would just buy the costume and Daddy is going to make some sort of mask for Spencer to wear on Halloween. So at least it will have a homemade element. And we're so glad the weather turned cooler so our little ghoul won't be roasting inside his fleece costume!

Round two of Halloween will take place during the day Wednesday at the fall festival at his other school. Looking forward to a big day of spooky fun!