Spirit Week

It was Spirit Week at school.  For Mellow Monday, Caroline took the opportunity to wear sweatpants and she enjoyed their comfort all day long.  In the preschool, nearly all the kids came in their pajamas.  They took their leisurewear seriously.  That afternoon, Josiah had two new friends over to make yet another movie.  It was titled The Batman and Robin and they worked for two hours taking clip after clip.  By the end, Josiah compiled their 60-some videos into a 10 minute movie.  What happens is that the movie gets sent to all the kids at school and then other kids express interest in making one, so each week has been a new movie making project. 

While they were making a movie, Caroline hung out with a friend from her class and Henry rode off with a friend from school who lives in the neighborhood.  Both groups tossed the football, though Caroline and her friend did it volleyball style.  Henry came back with a bloody knee after making a dive for the football, narrowly missing his friend, and landing on the concrete.  

T-shirt Tuesday was next, then Wednesday-Twin Day.  Caroline and all the girls in her class dressed up as faces of a die.  Caroline was #2.  Sadly, no one took a picture of the group, so I don't know what the rest looked like.  

On Thursday, our school celebrated Reformation Day, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.  The Catholic Church was charging people for forgiveness of their sins and Luther said, nope, not what the Bible says.  And so began the Protestant church in protest.  The upper school taught the lower school about the Reformation.  In the preschool, we dressed as princes/princesses or peasants.  In my class of seven girls, we were all princesses.  Since Reformation Day is also Halloween, we walked to the retirement home next door and the residents passed out candy to the (preschool) kids.  

We missed out on our usual Halloween tradition of in-house trick or treating.  That evening, Todd and I had to do a biometric screening for our health insurance.  It was at his university and we just stayed there and ate dinner.  While we waited for the dining hall to open, the kids played basketball.  

The week closed out with Yeehaw Friday.  Josiah could not find his cowboy hat and he did not hear the end of it at school.  His science teacher said he was very disappointed that he didn't show up in a cowboy hat.  Coming from Texas, expectations were had, but not met.  (The science teacher is Josiah's favorite, so he was just messing with him.)  Todd found all the cowboy hats at his office in a box labeled 'hats.'  After school was over, Caroline and I made a Target run just to get Henry a plaid 'western' shirt.  At first, I could only find gingham.  When Caroline saw it, she asked if he was going on a picnic.  We kept looking.  We found the requested blue plaid shirt and he wore it that evening to the school's Barn Dance.  Both boys were very eager to get there and did not agree that arriving nine minutes late was considered fashionable.  They could not get out of the car fast enough.  At pick-up, they both said they had a very good time.  Henry was challenged to eat 20 sausages and he proved his capability.  They danced, they talked, they have shared very few details.  For instance, when asked, 

Who did you dance with? 

It was answered with, I don't know.  

Did you not look them in the face?  

Needless to say, details are sparse, but fun was had.  

Saturday morning, Caroline and I were finishing up her homework on the patio when we looked up and saw a grey fox walking down the street.  We really live among the animals here.

We also received the kids school pictures this week.  They turned out really well.  I was even more grateful for the pictures of their classes so I can finally put a face to the kids names. 

We are currently on the countdown to Thanksgiving Break T-minus 26 days.