Halloween: "Red Jungle Fury Power Ranger" and "Two Year Old"

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Sorry, this one is blurry. Best I've got.

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We had a good Halloween, even though it was waaaaaay to warm for this holiday!

Leo was a Power Ranger, and Henry refused to wear a costume. He had Clifford or Elmo to choose from, but he refused both.

We started at a neighborhood block party with hot dogs, chips, and desserts. It's so nice to get to meet neighbors! Then we did some trick-or-treating. The boys loved it. Henry would even say "Trick or Treat" and "Thank You." Everyone thought he was too cute. Leo wanted to run from one house to the next, and Henry wanted to wander through each yard and ooooh and aaaaah at the decorations and DEFINITELY touch any jack-o-lantern or blow up decoration! So it was a challenge to keep up with both of them since Todd stayed home to do candy duty. A neighbor was with me, so that really helped.

I made sushi!

Todd and I have developed a serious sushi habit, and he has been suggesting for awhile that we (I) should try making it ourselves (myself). My friend Carla tried it and told me it wasn't that complicated, so I gave it a try tonight. I bought all the supplies at H Mart yesterday for about $12.

I did a California roll, so I used cucumber, avocado, and imitation crab meat.

We loved our homemade sushi! So nice to just eat it from the counter while we fed the kids - didn't have to go to a fancy restaurant. I ended up making 6 rolls - I told Todd I had saved us about $50 tonight if you subtracted the supplies. Can't wait to try some other types of rolls.

And here are some pictures!
The rice on the nori...

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A finished roll. Sorry for the knife.

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Leo checks it out. There's that knife again!

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We had everything - even wasabi and soy. The only thing we didn't have was the pickled ginger - I could only find a huge container of it. Way too much.


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A Preview of Henry's 2 yr Pictures

We had some professional pictures taken yesterday for Henry's second birthday. Kandi put a few preview pictures up on her blog - she'll send me the full set in a couple of weeks.

http://kandicerayphotography.blogspot.com/2008/10/dancing-with-henry.html

When I have my next job review...

I'm going to add "meets school theme fashion requirements" to my duties and ask for a raise! I haven't worked this hard on clothes since college! A lot of this is for Red Ribbon Week...slip away from drugs, hide from drugs, etc.

We've had...

Hat Day (They start you off easy. I had this one.)
Twin Day (coordinated with neighbor)
Slipper Day (fuzzy crocs at WM; bought the day before)
Camouflage Day ($5.50 Garanimals at WM - the camo I bought for this year is still too big)
Color Week (the only day I missed was purple. Had to cry uncle at 8pm the night before.)
Cowboy Day (they did a little music and dance number for all the parents in cowboy attire. I totally flunked this one. He told me they had cowboy hats for them, so I said "good enough.")

Still to come...
Team Jersey Day (It's tomorrow.)
Black and Orange Day
Flashlight reading day
50s Day (Dress like the 1950s for the 50th Day of school.)

I'm tired!!

File Folder Games

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I have 40+ of these file folder games that I made in college for assignments for classes. The idea was that I would have activities ready when I started as a new teacher - things the kids could do when they finished at different times, rainy days, etc. They work on reading skills, sorting, classifying, alphabetical order, math skills, etc. Anyway, they never saw any use b/c I taught sixth grade. But, I hung onto them b/c I put many, many hours of work into them...and it paid off. Leo is loving them! In the game pictured, you match the ending of a word up with its beginning sounds.