FLASHBACK! OLIVER'S FIRST HALLOWEEN!
Did you have big Halloween fun? Parker held his annual Halloween fest for the kiddos with a potluck and then we visited a select few neighbors with the cute little costumed kiddos. Oliver was a 'gator. I'll get some photos to you one way or another. I don't really want to get into the trick-or-treating ritual, but it was really great spending time with a lot of other parents and kiddos 3 and under.
So we have been hanging out in Colorado at about 9200 ft. above sea level since the 8th with our very dear friends Hal and Vicki. Have been incommunicado as they don't have (a need for) high speed internet and we've just had the cell phones off so we could enjoy each other and life at a different pace. It was a great and much-needed vacation. Weather was all over the map per usual fall in the rockies. We hiked, explored, soaked up the sun, played in the snow, had massages, ate good food and a lot of snow (Oliver), drank wine, ogled the architecture, shopped, museumed, saw my family for a couple of days, and either caught up to ourselves or, probably more accurately, slowed down to reconnect.
Oliver, Nora, Parker, Ro, just wrapped up a 6-wk session Music Together By the Bay session and it was fun. I can totally seeing you filling the scarves/steel drum void in waimea [or anywhere else] for little kiddos. Some mornings I am running in the arboretum with HIS music class music playing on the 'player' in my head. Too funny. And am trying to do so much to yard [at once] here. Oliver and I hang out for hours in the garden. weeding. planting. moving the elephants to shade under the zucchini, eating berries, and he gets to 'prune' now, hiding in the bamboo [i want to make tunnels]. Burrell is building us a nice sound/privacy fence 'uphill'. If only we didn't need to sleep.
