The Old Rocking Chair

Yesterday afternoon, Wayne and Cole participated in their autumn piano recital. It was held at the church in Greensboro. Their teacher lives is Greensboro and that is where they go to her house for lessons. Cole played a little ditty called "Je Commence" and Wayne played a piece called "Hunting Horns." 

They played this duet called "The Old Rocking Chair." There's a couple of stumbles, but it's really pretty and c'mon, they're just so handsome and cute. When you see them sitting here at the baby grand in their dress shirts and ties, would you ever suspect that they fought like cats and dogs whenever they had to practice together? If their teacher only knew what we went through to get to this point.

Halloween

The Sunday afternoon before Halloween was a pumpkin carving spree. Heather was determined to carve her pumpkin all by herself, and did so even though it was quite difficult for her. She refused to give up.

 It's a Princess.  She says it's ok if it looks a little weird, because it's Halloween.

Cole carved Darth Vader. I used the mask to draw (very poorly) on the pumpkin and Cole carved out the lines.

 Wayne used a pattern we downloaded from the internet to carve Jabba the Hut.

Jabba, all ready to go to school in the morning for the pumpkin carving contest.

 Cole's Darth Vader and the Death Star, ready for school. I forgot to get pictures of all these pumpkins lit up, but they looked really cool.

Heather's Princess. No contest at her school. Preschool does not celebrate or acknowledge any holidays thanks to the Head Start program that also shares their building.

 Wayne also decided to carve one of Heather's mini pumpkins and one of my precious butternut squashes (or as Heather calls them, Peanut squashes).

 Cupcakes for Wayne and Cole's classroom parties.

 Ready for trick or treating. Wayne is a New York Yankees baseball player. Cole is Darth Vader for the 2nd year in a row, and Heather is a butterfly with very wilted antennae. You can see that our snow did not last too long.  We started trick or treating at the bottom of Perron Hill and worked our way up and back down the other side. We missed being able to visit with Elaine and Bernard, but hope that Elaine is feeling better and on the mend.

While I was in Maine with Wayne and Heather, Joanie had Wes and Cole over to her house for birthday dinner with Grammie. We haven't celebrated Wes's birthday yet, as a family, but we'll do something this week. Wes enjoyed all the phone calls and cards. Thanks everyone.