Halloween Parade

Friday was the school's Halloween parade. All the kids made their own costumes in class--the school's theme for the parade was "nature". Ethan's class dressed up as leaves.

Since Ethan and his classmates are really still a bit young to parade in any sort of an organized fashion (especially around the city streets), they got to sit in a buggy. Next year, he'll get to walk.


Grandma and Grandpa Greenberg, and Great-Aunt Marcy were able to come watch the parade too--Marcy even dressed up--as octomom!

Halloween Preview

This weekend, we took Ethan to a Halloween picnic that was put on by a local mom's group. We have had lots of rainy weather recently, but luckily the rain held of for a few hours on Saturday morning so we could go outside.

Ethan wore his costume--what we are calling a "mariachi musician" to make it slightly more PC. But really, we have him dressed as a Mexican--with a poncho and a sombrero. Uncle Jeff actually picked the costume up for Ethan last year when he was in Mexico--so it is authentic!

And I think, pretty darn cute. It was certainly original--most of the kids were monkeys or lions from old navy or target--Ethan was certainly the only Mexican!

Anyhow, he had fun. His favorite activity was jumping around in a bouncy house (his first time). Initially he did not want to go inside, but one he warmed up to the idea, we had trouble getting him out!

We plan to at least trying out trick-or-treating in our neighborhood next weekend...stay tuned!

School Days

Ethan has been in school for almost 2 months now. He seems to love it. Everyday he comes home completly dirty--evidence of a lot of fun!! Usually both of his shoes are filled with sand, and his outfit has been changed.



He seems to be bonding with his classmates--he can even say some of their names!


Speaking of which, his verbal skills are really advancing--everyday he seems to come home with a new word. Our favorite so far is "applesauce", which he says really fast--it sounds so funny!

Anyhow, enjoy these pictures that his teachers took of him at school!

What we've been up to....

Well we are finally feeling settled back here in San Francisco. I have been working for a month now, and Jason for 2 weeks. Our weeks have developed somewhat of a routine, and we have enjoyed some fun things around the area on the weekends--here's a bit of what we have been up to:

1. A visit to the California Academy of Sciences--this is San Francisco's science museum/aquarium/planetarium. We took Ethan for an hour on a Saturday morning to check out their living rain forest and the aquarium. He loved the fish!




2. A trip to Los Gatos to visit our friends Sue and Ben, and their son Cruz. They moved down there right before we came back--it is about an hour south of where we live--and much warmer! Their complex has a pool and Ethan and Cruz went swimming. Ethan loves "jumping" off the edge.


3. Pumpkin picking in Half Moon Bay. Half Moon Bay is about 45 min south of SF on the ocean--and famous for growing pumpkins. We visited a small family farm called Tunitas Creek Family farm, where Ethan picked out a pumpkin, and got to feed some goats. He sure has changed since our visit to a pumpkin patch in New England last October when he couldn't even stand up!