Happy Halloween!

The other day in her Kids Pace class, Greta had her face painted for the first time. I guess she spent nearly the whole hour and a half also wearing a clown wig!
At the end of the day Greta cried when it was time to remove the face paint :-(
Greta as a fairy.
On Saturday there was a Halloween carnival at the community center down the street from us. The gym was all set up with crafts, play areas, face painting, and treats. Greta had a blast, and Therese was very pleasant throughout, even though it was her nap time :-)
Towards the end of the carnival there was a magic show, so the area with mats and blocks cleared out and Therese had it all to herself!

Our little side-poser.
Greta getting her face painted at the carnival! Hooray!

She got a lollipop after making a spider--she made a bat puppet there as well. While doing these projects Greta was full of concentration and totally engrossed in creating! (If you notice on the left Matthew has his Hebrew flashcards with him, so studious!)

Our beautiful fairy!
The next day Matthew painted her face again--she is really into face painting! I jokingly suggested she paint his face...and I let her paint mine as well.
Here we are! Scary...
Yesterday was Halloween. Greta was very excited to go out and trick-or-treat! Here she is with her wand, all ready to venture into the night.

Greta doesn't really like it when it's dark, but she didn't seem to mind too much last night. She and I held hands and went to many doors while Matthew had Therese in the carrier and tried to get her to stop fussing and go to sleep...in Vancouver people light fireworks for Halloween, so it was very noisy out!
Eventually I took over Matthew's job...Therese just needed her mama (she's definitely in that phase...I don't really mind at all :-) )
Greta started to get a big spooked after about an hour of trick-or-treating. It was really noisy with all the fireworks, and there were many scary sights as well. She wanted to be held by Papa, and she wanted to go home! The whole way home she did what she does when she's scared: she closed her eyes tight and held on to Matthew with all her might! She was sure glad when we got home, and was relieved to hear that we would not be going trick-or-treating again tomorrow...through the whole ordeal she did not shed a single tear, though.
She likes having all the candy!
She was very sweet going door to door--she often remembered to say "trick-or-treat" and "thank you", and when people told her "Happy Halloween!" she would say it back to them, and if they said "Have a good Halloween" she would say "Thank you, I WILL have a good Halloween!" What a sweetheart.
Non-Halloween now...Greta often says "You should take a picture of this", here was one of those moments :-)
We have come to the conclusion that Therese is totally into Matthew's stuff. She always goes for his Filson bags when they're on the floor, and his shoes (especially his shoelaces...)!
Filson back-pack, about to hit the jack-pot!


Good news: we're moving (again!) But really, this is great news. The people in our old apartment, the two bedroom upstairs that we vacated a year and a half ago, are leaving. They told us ahead of time in case we wanted to take it...and we DO! We moved out of it to save money, but we can afford it now and Matthew will be done with school in April, so things are looking up--we are enjoying Vancouver and want to stay here longer...but WE NEED MORE SPACE!!! Matthew and I cannot wait to have our own bedroom again! And we LOVED that apartment. It is almost too good to be true. We move in at the end of the month :-) So, come for a visit! We will have room for you again!