Halloween approaches

All of us are looking forward to Halloween - although since we've already had our annual Rocky Horror party plus Jimmy's school party it sort of seems like the holiday is lasting forever.  Both of those gatherings went very well.  Shide'h and I (and Kirsi, of course) dressed up and went to help out at Jim's class party, which was a lot of fun.  The kids recited a Halloween poem and paraded through all the classes before sitting down to eat their goodies. 

House still not on the market, but at least it's mostly clean now.  Procrastination gets easier as winter closes in - we don't have much hope of it selling until spring.  But we'll put it on the market anyway, you never know.  Snow has fallen the last two days, and disappeared by midday.  We're looking forward to the warmer weather waiting in Oregon.

Jimmy is doing great in school - big surprise, right?  He's really enjoying reading and writing, his drawing is improving (not that it wasn't great already) and best of all is his increasing confidence.  He's much more outgoing than he was at the beginning of the year, and learning to be proud of everything he can do.  At home, he spends a lot of his time playing educational computer games and making robots out of K'nex, Legos, magnets, and anything else he can get his hands on.  

Kirsi has finally beaten her rash, so we're all singing Hail Mary.  She's crawling like a pro, sitting like it ain't no thang, and trying very hard to stand - not quite there yet, though.  She'll be six months old next week.  It really doesn't seem like she's been here that long, and yet the single child days seem like forever ago.  My milk is suddenly disappearing, so she's started on supplemental formula today, which has depressed me.  But hopefully she'll start gaining more weight now, as formula babies usually do.  Although of course she's just perfect the way she is.

Happy Halloween!