October 31, 2009 by Dad.

Saturday was the day Ouma & Oupa left and went back home - to Africa. After Cezanne and I took them to the airport we had lunch and played next door in the leaves. Later that afternoon we went to Chloe’s house for “Halloween” aka “Dress Up Candy Day” since that is really all it amounts to. I look at it like the most agnostic people look at Christmas or Easter - I could care less about the “meaning” behind it and really only care that it is an excuse to dress the kids up, have fun and score a little free candy along the way.

It was very cold, about 45F, the kids never felt it but eventually the parents who chaperoned the herd decided we were cold and the candy haul was sufficient.

Our herd consisted of one Cinderella, one Ariel, one Minnie Mouse and a pair of pirates…

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October 31, 2009 by Dad.

Our wonderful neighbors were away for a few days and they have a great big Maple tree in their back yard which dropped all its leaves in a matter of a day or two and so there was a huge pile of beautiful yellow leaves. Cezanne and I decided to “trespass” and play in the leaves…Cezanne decided that she needed to make her own leaf pile to jump into and so ended up picking up piles of cold wet leaves and running down the hill to an open patch of lawn where she assembled her “pile”.

I took a few pictures of the fun.

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