I was letting the girls have a lazy weekend after all our running around.
But Elena is really into the more academic demands of Reception (aka PreK).
She insisted on making me a Venn Diagram comparing ants and people.
But Elena's most impressive accomplishment this month is that she can now swim all by herself! The best part is, she loves it and doesn't want to get out of the water.
Both the girls seem to be enjoying school this year.
Viv got dressed up for a presentation on amusement park rides and looked just lovely.
That was also the day she found out she would be Captain Cod in the Primary Production of Pirates of the Curry Bean. I'm sure it will puntastic fun, just like last year's production.
Jeff had to travel some for work, and the girls were good helpers. They went with me to take the car for an oil change and general check up.
Vivian found the whole thing fascinating, and luckily the mechanic was fine with her watching him work.
As a reward for their good behavior, I took them to get Halloween nails at the mall.
We didn't go out trick or treating on actual Halloween this year. Instead, I decided we would try the embassy Halloween party which was on a Friday. I thought that would the simpler and more kid friendly option. Boy was I wrong. First of all, the car that was supposed to come pick us up was half an hour late. Then, it took us an hour in heavy traffic to get to the embassy, and once we got there it was a madhouse. There were huge crowds and lines to get into every office. To their credit, the offices had done a great job decorating, and the girls really enjoyed that part. I got a cool picture of them with one of the creations.
But we kept having to stand in line to get candy. No one around us in line spoke English, and the people behind me kept shoving into my back. After about 30 minutes, I told Jeff he needed to take me home before I snapped and caused an international incident. Luckily, the girls were satisfied with their haul. On the actual day of Halloween, there was a parade, and we attempted to make Vivian green with the makeup that had come with her Gamora costume. This was as green as she got.
After all the Halloween insanity was done, I was ready to move on to a holiday I actually like, Thanksgiving. I offered to take the girls to get Thanksgiving nails if they let me stop at Andino to buy a couple things. They were down for that and excited that Andino was starting to put up their Christmas decorations.
It was a Monday holiday, so unfortunately, the nails place opened a bit later than I had thought it would. We decided to make the best of it though, with a Krispy Kreme donut snack and some crazy fun at Chuck E Cheese.
By then, the nail place was open, but there was a wait for all three of us to get our nails done together, so I figured I would continue the trend of unhealthiness and get them McDonald's happy meals for lunch.
It's good that it wasn't too expensive, because my strange kids don't really do McDonalds. Vivian ate the nuggets, but not the fries. Elena ate the yogurt and a few fries, but not the nuggets. I probably could have gotten one meal to split between them, but they each needed their own weirdly patterned animal toy. The most important part was that they were happy.
Finally, we got in to have our nails done. The girls went for cranberry sauce red nails with turkey thumbs.
It's probably all going to be chipped off by Thanksgiving, but they were super pleased with their turkeys :-)
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