October is a fun month here. The leaves are changing colors and dropping to the ground. The red, orange, and yellow are so pretty to see! Fall is my favorite season of the year. It cools down nicely and is so pretty.
We have been busy with K.C. and his Fall sports. He started 10th grade this year and is very good in school (we have parent/teacher conferences next week, but he has already told me he has 4 A’s and 1B – in History). He also plays the drums in the Marching Band so he performs at the half time shows at the high school football games. When he is not doing playing drums he is playing soccer. He plays on the Junior Varsity (J.V.) team this year. He is number 21 in the picture below. Soccer season just ended and the team did GREAT!! He is now looking forward to Basketball season – tryouts are next month.
Jack loves school – he calls his daycare ‘school, I play with friends.’ He is doing well. He is drawing, painting, and playing three days a week while I go to work. He is really increasing his vocabulary and starting to talk in complete sentences! He is cuter than EVER!!
This past weekend we went to a Halloween event. There is a little re-creation of an old time village in Flint (about an hour from the house) that has about 20 little houses like a bakery, a blacksmith, a library, a school house, etc. At Halloween time they have people dress up and pass out candy (they do a similar thing at Greenfield Village). The kids (and some parents) dress up in costumes and ‘Trick-or-Treat’ at each house. The idea is that the people in the house give a Treat or they get a Trick played on them (no one really does the tricks anymore, but they used to be like throwing eggs at houses, soaping car windows, putting toilet paper all over the houses) so everyone gets lots of candy. Afterwards we went on a train ride there that had Halloween displays like witches, ghosts, and monsters in the woods. It wasn’t scary for Jack he thought it was fun!! Jack dressed up as Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story and K.C. was Woody. Officially Halloween is October 31st, but most places do these events earlier in the month so that everyone gets to have fun.
Next week I will be going to the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (aect). This is an international educational technology organization and each year they have a conference to share ideas and network. If you have a chance to go to this type of conference – GO!! You might have a chance next semester. One of my professors at Wayne State, my advisor actually, is going to a variety of universities (including in Taiwan) and sharing knowledge. If you hear of Dr. Ke Zhang from WSU, go and meet her and tell her you know me!!
Let me know what you are up to,
See you soon,
Stacey
