Friday morning, Eleri’s class began with pumpkin fun. All students were asked to bring in a small pumpkin. We had our green one. Parents were asked to come in to help and bring a treat, if possible. Since it was at 8am, I thought I should find something besides cupcakes. I decided jello jigglers would be a nice treat. Now, the real fun was to find some Halloween cookie cutters. A City Super grocery store opened this summer in the new IFC building. City Super is the same store we had in Hong Kong which always had all kinds of cooking and other items along with food. The best I could find were cat cookie cutters which were about the right size. Black cats were close enough.

Now that Emersyn is a big middle school girl, there was no Halloween fun planned. I asked her teacher if I could send in jigglers with her. The girls and I made one batch of jigglers before sending them to bed on Wednesday night. On Thursday, I made a second bath and cut out all the cats. Making jello is very fast, cutting cats was very slow, but they were fun. Elle’s class had grape jello which did look like black cats. Emmy’s class had blueberry flavored blue cats.

The pumpkin fun was all about math. First, we measured the height and circumferences of the pumpkins and weighed them. Next, it was cutting open the pumpkins, digging out the seeds and counting them. Elle wasn’t much into touching the seeds. I helped her to put them in piles of 10. Our little green pumpkin had about 150 seeds!

To add to the fun of the day, it was a half day of school. I picked the girls up at 11:30 to go to lunch with the Bishops (Faith, Avery and Riley). I also had Sophie today as Jennifer was going to the Consulate for a new passport for Sean. The girls had fun playing in the fun house next to lunch at Malone’s. It was a nice way to spend the afternoon.

Emmy went home with The Bishops as it was Middle School activity night. She would spend the night at Avery’s house. Faith and Dan were helping with the event. It was nice as I didn’t have to go back to Jinqiao to get her. Sophie came home with us and spent the evening having fun with Elle.