Leila's 8th Birthday

Leila's birthday activities started friday, October 25th. We took her to the Witch Breakfast show at Gardner Village again. We picked her up from school early and surprised her. It started at 10:30am. It was just Leila, Erana, Candi, Mum and I. We ate a lot of eggs and bacon and pancakes. Leila went up on stage a couple times when they had kid volunteers. She even did the cup song with one of the witches at our table. We walked around the village after and she got a new tybeanie boo.

In the afternoon we went to the zoo. The kids had a good time. The weather was nice and not too cool. There was a new part of the zoo we hadn't seen before, the seal and polar bear section. It was nice. Erana loves to see the animal and was very excited.

On Tuesday the 29th we went to McDonalds for her birthday and Dray and Kage came. After she opened presents and had Ninja turtle cup cakes.

Thursday was Halloween. She had another birthday cheese cake. We went over to Jody and Monica's at 5:30pm. We ate clam chowder, boil up, and other yummy stuff. We went trick or treating around the newer neighborhood down the hill. Mina went with Malia and Malia's friend but said they didn't get enough lollies because those 2 were talking too much and walking slow. Mina was a tad bit upset about that. Mina was dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Jaxon was Slenderman from a scary game they play on the pc. Other kids knew who he was and liked his costume. Leila was also a Ninja turtle and Erana was a little skeleton.

October Stuff

Thursday October 24th Jaxon graduated from Webelos and got his Arrow of Light award. Candi went to it. She said Jaxon looked a little hori in his shorts and scout top.

Back on the 7th we went to the annual Halloween party at the Ashworth's home. Erana got her face painted. Kids had a good time.

On the 6th we took some family photos in our backyard. They are for our Christmas cards. We kept delaying it and so the good weather will be going away soon so we were desperate. So the backyard it is, spinarit. We also did some inside. Some turned out ok.

On Tuesday the 1st we had our FHE. We went to Gardner Village and did the Witch Hunt. We got a paper with all the location clues and we went off and found them and marked it off. When it was complete we could use the papers for a cookie coupon.

Funny Things Kids Say

• Erana was watching tv in the reading nook. I (Candi) went to check on her and I see her all happy and smiling and she says to me "fly's my friend". I say "Huh?" Then I see this fly sitting on her leg & flying around her legs. I say, "Ewww that's yuck, I'm gonna kill that fly."  Then her face went all sad and she yells out "NO!" Another day I was in the kitchen swatting flys with the fly swatter, and she hears me and runs to me and says "No Mama, fly's my friend". Another morning I killed a fly in my room, and Erana saw me do it, she burst into tears and wouldn't stop crying until I gave her a lollie.
• I fried up some onions for dinner and it was making everyone's eyes water. Well the next night I fried up some more onions and Leila says "Why did Jesus make onions hurt your eyes?"
• There was a crab on t.v. or something and Erana says, "I like crabs, they are so awesome!" Lol.
• Erana says out of the blue one time, "Jaxon is jealous Mummy." Not sure she knows what that means.
• Erana has a lot of little purses and boxes that she fills up with all sorts of random things like rocks, toys, flashlights, and anything that appeals to her. She's like Jaxon with her little rats nests. She sat on me (Jason) with one of her boxes while I was doing this and said, "Let's play puppet ninjas." She opened her box and gave me a plastic toy knight and she pulled out a little plastic toy ninja man for her. She's so cute.