Various October Events

Naturally, other than traveling, we have been insanely busy.  You know we do more than travel, right??  October was a great month, as initially, we received ONE (just one!) of our crates with some of our things in it.  And of COURSE, it was the crate with all of the useless junk from the basement in it.  But then, thankfully about a week later, the rest of our stuff arrived!

Hey look the truck is here!  Aaaaand now I have to unload those suckers!

One box at a time, Colleen.  One box at a time.

Our giant maple in the front yard was super pretty and very red! It reminds me of Massachusetts, so I love this tree. 

Grant turned 6 at the end of the month, and I made some cupcakes for his birthday.  Unlike Massachusetts (TOTALLY unlike Massachusetts!), we are allowed to bring in food treats for birthdays.   Much to this mama-of-a-severe-food-allergy-child's chagrin.

It doesn't seem possible that he's 6!  Isn't he the sweetest!?

The kindergarten classes get to dress up for Halloween, but it's for a rhyming parade.  So all of the kids have to have rhyming costumes.  Grant had "leaves on his sleeves."  It was the best I could do without all of my art supplies that are still on a truck somewhere in Germany!  I happened to find some little clothespins with wooden leaves on them in a local store, and I clipped them all over Grant's sleeves.  Haha, not super original, but it was fine in a pinch!  This is his kindergarten class at their new school, Vilseck Elementary.  Originally, they started out at Netzaberg Elementary but then we quickly moved, so the kids weren't there very long.  His teacher is on the left and her assistant is on the right.

Poor Grant.  The truck arrived with all of our other crates on his birthday, so he opened presents in the living room, on our loaner furniture, while his sister gave him bunny ears.  Gotta make it up to him next year!!!

It doesn't seem like he minded too much.  Cool!  I got Minecraft stuff!

Mommy's homemade cake!  (Wow, I will NOT be winning any awards for best cake decorator anytime soon, will I!?!)

Last but not least, we rounded out the month with Halloween!  We went over to Rose Barracks to do some trick or treating, with our Princess Leia and Steve from Minecraft.  I was rather shocked at how popular Steve was!  Of course, half of the base are young guys who actually still play Minecraft ha ha.  They have MUCH in common with my 6-year-old!  Pretty much everyone was out of candy pretty quickly, so we'll have to remember for next year that you need to get there EARLY!