It has been a super fun Halloween season! Leading up to Halloween we participated in some cool activities. We attended a North Carolina Symphony concert, my first ever seeing an orchestra. Before the concert, they had stations set up for kids to try different instruments. I tried the violin and cello. The orchestra played Halloween themed music and some dancers performed Peter and the Wolf. It was interesting seeing the orchestra although I only prefer listening to music by Bach or Mozart. Maybe I will hear some when we go to our next performance. The day after the concert, I got to go to a special event at the library with my best friend Lila. We worked on crafts, played some games and had a trick-or-treating parade. It was all practice for Halloween night!
The day before Halloween I had a school field trip. We went to an historic farm where some ladies taught us about what life was like on a farm 200 years ago. They showed us all of the chores they had to do; like cleaning and caring for the animals. I couldn't believe that they had to wake up at 4AM to get all their chores done! I like helping with chores at our house, but I can't believe having so much to do that you would have to wake up that early! I had fun, especially since Lila was my field trip buddy!
The night before Halloween we carved our pumpkins. Mom was impressed at how well I cleaned out the pumpkins. After I designed the face for my jack-o-lantern, Mom cut it out for me. I love my design. On Halloween I had a really fun time trick-or-treating although I wasn't especially excited for the event because I had to give up most of my candy due to my braces. That's okay, I sold it to the dentist so they could send it to soldiers serving our country.
The nip is in the air and it's starting to feel like the holidays! To kick things off, we went to downtown Raleigh for the Raleigh Christmas Parade. Then, we headed to Pennsylvania (the nip was really in the air up there) to celebrate Thanksgiving with Grammie and Gramps. We had a nice visit with them. We played games, did puzzles, walked through town looking at lights, visited the library, watched movies and my most favorite was helping with the Thanksgiving meal by making the pumpkin pies! The entire Thanksgiving dinner was delicious and if I don't say so myself, the pie was yummy!! Matt, Nicole and Conner joined us for dinner so it was a nice big family meal. I was really thrilled too that Gramps was able to fix the Casio keyboard so I could play all of my songs live for them! Our trip went really fast and I was sad to leave but luckily Grammie and Gramps will be back in just a little over a week! Now I just have to finish one week of school, then it's track out until Chrismas!
