Fall and Halloween!

Sorry loved ones for not blogging for over a month. After my last post written from Belgium, we visited France, Portugal and then England again. As you can imagine, after almost a month of traveling (3 weeks of which I was a "single mother" since Jonny was either in Malaysia or at home) I arrived back home exhausted and it's taken us about 3 weeks to get settled back into a routine. Plus, many other things have been going on related to our careers, future decisions, etc., so it's been a hectic time (more on that some other time)...

The fact that I have literally hundreds of photos to sort through from Europe has also not helped, but I decided that I just have to see when I'll get to do that. Main thing is to get blogging again!

So since today is Halloween and we have recently been taking lots of cute photos, I thought I would just get straight back into it tonight!

Fall is here and the colors of the trees just take my breath away every year! Though the Fall is a strong reminder that winter is on its way (which I don't enjoy because of the cold), it's so beautiful... Just last week close to our house, I took these photos of Daniel (and the ones above) which clearly show how stunning the leaves are here this time of the year...



This past Friday, October 29th, Daniel's school had a costume parade and Daniel got to wear his fireman costume which he inherited from one of our neighbors. He is obsessed by firemen and firetrucks, so you can just imagine how excited he was to be one!

Daniel all dressed up outside our home before school


Costume party in the afternoon - these are Daniel's little friends that share a table with him (assigned seats, so he sits next to them during the day). Daniel is eating his first ever lollipop in this photo (I wasn't thrilled about it, but I knew the day was coming! :-))


With Enya and Sid (our neighbor Enya is in Daniel's class now!)

Daniel's class coming outside for the costume parade (Daniel didn't know I was there waiting)

This is when he saw me (he was already smiling and happy which comforted my heart - just always good to know he is happy at school)

Then tonight, on actual Halloween, we got together with our neighbors for dinner at Devesh's house and then we took the 3 kids trick-or-treating again (as we did last year - see how they have grown!). Daniel was so excited about it, though he still doesn't realize that he got lots of candy (he filled it up but hasn't looked at his pumpkin bucket since coming back home). Look how cute they looked and enjoyed the experience tonight!

Yay, I have managed to get one blog post published in October! Until next time loved ones; hopefully very soon!