Trick-or-Treat!

In true Prague fashion (for us), we were battling illness for Hallowe'en again this year. Luckily, it tempered our celebrations but did not completely knock us out of the festivities this year. Hallowe'en morning, Maylia and Mattias attended a Hallowe'en themed storytime, where Maylia helped entertain about 30 pirates, witches, princesses, and monsters with spooky stories and silly puppets. Here's Mattias in his goldfish costume that we're hoping he gets to go trick-or-treating in next year...

And sporting his super-cool Hallowe'en t-shirt courtesy of Grammy and Grampy (what he actually wore to the storytime).

After returning Mattias home for a nap, Maylia and Ella took off for a Hallowe'en themed birthday party for Ella's friend, Natalie.

We should also add that we warmed up for Hallowe'en by visiting a pumpkin farm and buying some pumpkins and squash. It was a very fun (and wet!) day with our friends Emily, Radek, Anna Lee, and Oliver.

And then Jeff and Ella attended a pumpkin carving party at our friends house (Valerie, Dan, Vinson, and Benjamin). Ella's jack-o-lantern is the second from left.

Health update: Monday (Nov 2), Jeff was to the doctor and learned he needed a round of antibiotics. Tuesday, Maylia returned to the doctor for a second round of antibiotics. Somehow, the children seem pretty healthy...knock on wood...not sure how...but we are so grateful! Hoping we'll all be healthy and back to our normal activities this coming week. Ella went to skolka 4 full days this week (8:30am to 3:30pm), since Mom was not much fun. And she also went to her drama class yesterday on her own (with her friend Natalie and Natalie's mom) - what a big girl! We're very proud of her!