Uncle Jim and Aunt Lucile stopped in for a visit on their way to their winter hang out.
As always the kids (and we) are excited to see them. They always pick up fun kid activities during their many travels and share them with the kids.
There are rulers, foam fingers, sticker books, and a superhero comic book about a plumber. An eclectic mix of goodies!
Laura’s birthday included flowers and cupcakes from Mommy, some playtime for MacDougall while she opened some lovely gifts and talked to family on the phone and computer, and getting a free bag of birthday cookies from Sweet Tomatoes at supper.
Colin is still a big fan of his gymnastics lessons.
This is what a posh produce market looks like in Equatorial Guinea. You buy your produce separately from all your other groceries.
These are some sizable leeks!
Plantains and papayas are plentiful.
Those bottles are old liquor bottles, filled with “ground nuts” which are locally roasted peanuts. Named ground nuts because they grow in the ground. Quite tasty, although one does need to watch out for rocks.
In a similar vein, “ground beef” is pidgin for certain varieties of bush meat – rats and hyrax (rodents of unusual size) that can be purchased from the not-so-posh local vendors. Imagine a roadside stand with a bunch of rats hanging by their tails.
Nothing says “fun birthday celebration” quite like bouncy castles and beating on Captain America with a stick!
It turns out my kids are fairly well skilled at smacking a piñata.
Because circle pancakes are so boring, we mixed it up this week with some trucks and a camping scene made from pancake.
… a busy Colin, apparently. As I was busy doing something vitally important to the good of our family, ironing, or cooking, or some other interesting thing, he built this city/forest/scene of some type. Creative little guy!
So Saturday was not only Halloween but also a race day in our house. It was raining really hard up until about an hour before the race so the trails were “a little wet”.
The kids both ran in the kids race that was scheduled to be 1 mile but was cut short due to water on the course that was up past Colin’s chest. They both had a great run and are looking forward to their next.
Sarah was a trooper and ran a 5km race through the muddy and wet course. She is awesome!
Sour Patch Kids. Wait for it…
It’s been a very busy day here – enough for a few different blog posts! I will start with the obvious: Halloween! Here is Ninja Laura and the Flash. They had a great evening in the neighborhood.
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