A Tough Day for Emma

Well, Emma has been in grade one for 2 months now and has really created a great bond with her teacher. Unfortunetly, yesturday, the school dropped on bomb on the poor kids in Emma's class. Mrs. McCall is transfering to a new school. The school is saying it's because of a space coming open in Burford due to a retirement but no one totally believes that story. It turns out that parents, students and her fellow teachers only found this out yesturday and she leaves today. It's pretty abrupt. They don't have a new teacher to replace her yet and we have been warned that there will be "guest" teachers for the next week or so. I hope this transition works out to be a smooth one. I feel horrible for the kids in Emma's class and especially Emma. They love Mrs. McCall. My understanding is that there was a ton of tears shed by the kids and I hope the new teacher is fantastic. They are coming into a tough, situation.

Halloween in Brantford

Another year, another spooky Halloween night!

Well, with the exception of one small hiccup involving a paintball and our front window on Devil's night, Halloween went great.

Natalia couldn't decide if she wanted to be a princess or a skunk so in the end she went as both. During the day, she dressed up as a skunk and for trick-or-treating she dressed up as Barbie from the movie Diamond Castle. Emma was a kitty cat and a very pretty one at that. Kelly was nice enough to do both of the kids makeup and Emma looked FANTASTIC.

Both kids had a blast trick-or-treating. The only issue that Natalia had was that she didn't like going up to houses with a dog barking. That didn't surprise me seeing as she is terrified of dogs. By the end of the day, both kids were totally exhausted and filled up on tons and tons of candy. I think we had about 60 or more kids visit our house which is a huge change from the 20 or so kids we had last year.