Howl-O-Ween at the Zoo

Howl-O-Ween at the Phoenix Zoo! There must have been around 10,000 people there. Most crowded I've ever seen the place. It was divided up into "scary" for the older kids, and "non-scary" for the younger kids. Of course, we did all of the non-scary things like crafts, the carousel, trick or treating on the Arizona Trail..which took forever since it was so crowded. The most fun thing we experienced was the new 3-D Theater at the zoo. We watched a movie about some ghosts- which was not scary at all. Every time there was water in a scene (which was often), sprays of water went all over us. Any time there was a loud noise, the chairs would shake. In one scene, rats were scurrying across the floor, and there were little puffs of wind on your feet which felt like rats on the ground:) They even had hot and cold "wind" that corresponded with various scenes:) Luckily, it was still in the high 80's outside, or we would have been cold from getting so wet. Here is Morticia- without her wig which she took off prior to even getting out of the car-due to the heat. Hair is flattened down:) Trick or treating- too hot to wear costume!

Saturday...

Saturday morning skating, ceramics class, then Jazzy spent all of last night and the rest of today writing 400 sentences because she was caught stealing again:(( "I respect other people's property. I leave things alone that are not mine". I am hoping she learned her lesson this time- maybe.

Wax Museum

Every year, CEE has a "wax museum". Each child pretends to be a wax figure. When someone pushes their button, they have a one minute speech (which was supposed to have been memorized- not in our case) for the person to listen to. Jasmine's class was "Arizona Symbols" and Jazzy was the Arizona flag. The Arizona Bufo ranus frog and two Arizona flags:) Talking to a girl from the 2nd grade, although Jasmine was looking down the whole time because she refused to memorize her talk- as she was supposed to:( Mrs. Swane's 4th grade class consisting of a bobcat, sunshine, citrus, a copper miner, a couple of flags, the frog, a couple rattlesnakes, a lizard or two, a saguaro cactus, a palo verde tree and a cotton ball:))

Saturday Ceramics Class....

Jazzy has a Saturday afternoon Ceramics class at Tempe Community Center. I seem to be collecting all kinds of little cups, jars and pumpkins!

Party at Brenda, Tim and Margie's house:)

Jasmine had a continuous week of birthday parties:) We had lots of yummy food and fun! Tim took the photo:)

At Grandma's house this week!

Shopping at the market. Jazzy got 4 pumpkins and painted faces on all of them. They're all in front of Grandma's house now. Jazzy put together a Snoopy puzzle that had been sitting on Grandma's shelf for 15 years!

CCC Concert...

Chandler Children's Choir "Dreams of the West" first concert of the season- on Jazzy's birthday. They did sing Happy Birthday to her! Eating sack dinner with friends out in the courtyard:)