6 November 2016

Brandan wore his Ip Man costume to work on Monday.  Most people guessed he was either a character from the movie The Matrix or a Catholic priest.

Helen went trick or treating with friends this year.  From the left are Sophie, Gibson, Lucy, Helen, Clara and Ally.

Abe went with his friends.  Nearly every 8th grader we saw on Halloween this year was dressed as a Greaser.  The kids read The Outsiders in their English lit class this year.  From the left are Malakai, Camden and Abe.

Here's Helen with some of her loot.  Someone had a dollar bill in their treat bowl.

The girls swapped candy after they finished trick or treating so Helen only came home with candy she could eat-- a first for this girl with food allergies.

Helen and Lucy both painted their favorite animals on the backs of their Halloween costumes-- Helen's is a silver donkey and Lucy's is a purple horse.

Sofi sent us this meme someone in her dorm made after finding her asleep on a giant teddy bear.  Sofi and her roommates each chipped in $20 to buy the 8 foot bear.  They call it Fred or Beary or Paddington.  We don't know what the meme means, but it's a cute photo of Sofi.

Helen's class performed an original melodrama called The Good Will of Gold Hill on Thursday.  Helen played the female lead, Margaret Brennan, the prettiest girl in town.  Their class aide wrote and directed the play and the kids built the sets, designed the costumes, worked the sound and light boards and played all the parts.

The play was a choose your own adventure story.  Several times during the show, the narrators would let the audience choose which decision a character should make by calling out their votes.  The narrators changed the story based on how loud the audience cheered for one choice or another.  Abe liked voting especially loudly.

Here are Lucy, Sophie, Clara and Helen.

Abe and his partner finished their bug display this week.  Apparently, sticking a pin through a bug on a plain piece of cardboard with a label is too boring.  The class was assigned to be creative with their displays.  Abe and his partner created a bug yoga class on the beach at sunrise.  The bug labels are on the back of the box.

Our family is having a little fun at the end of a long election season.  Helen and Gibson created ballots for us to vote for dinner.  Becky will tally the ballots secretly and surprise the rest of the family with the winning menu on Tuesday night.