We celebrated Eric's 40th birthday with him flying a helicopter!
Graecyn ran in her schools "Eagle Dash" fundraiser. She had a lot of fun with her friends and ran a lot of laps around the bus loop (each bracelet = 1 lap ran!). She lost her 7th tooth and is becoming quite a leader at school.
Cody's enjoying pre-K and is learning to write his name. His class mascot is the panda and each child gets a turn to bring the panda home for the night. He was so excited when it was his turn to be "Panda of the day". He dressed up the panda in his sister's doll clothes, read books to it, and gave it lots of hugs.
Both Cody and Graecyn performed in the GTC Fall Showcase. Graecyn is in "Pre-Team" and Cody is in "Ninja". This was Cody's first time performing in front of a crowd. He was really nervous and scared at first and there were lots of tears, but once he got out on the floor, he had a blast! We were so proud of both of them!
We crammed as much Halloween fun into the month of October as we could. Graecyn dressed up as "JoJo Siwa" (a singer) and Cody was "Gecko" from PJ Masks (he picked Gecko because of Gecko's "super Gecko muscles". Halloween turned out to be a cold, wet miserable night, but the kids had fun anyway (we only stayed out for about 30 minutes before they were both begging to go back home where it was warm).
We had a mild and wet fall, so the leaves hung onto the trees forever. We finally had a chance to get outside and get the leaves up and everything put away for winter the day before an early snow storm (11" of snow on November 11!) (the pictures below were taken 24 hours apart!)
Graecyn's Brownie troop got to tour the Detroit Parade Company to learn how they make parade floats for the Detroit Thanksgiving Parade. It was amazing to see the artistic talent, engineering, and creativity that goes into making a parade float and costume.
Thanksgiving was spent in Michigan this year...our first Thanksgiving that we did not travel for. With Graecyn and Cody in school now and Eric not having vacation days, it's hard to travel for Thanksgiving. We missed being around family, but enjoyed our home time.
