we ended up with around 19 inches of snow when this storm was done.
So Autumn has been trying to learn a few card games. We taught her how to play crazy 8's which is rather fun and she's doing alright with that. We also thought we'd teach her Go Fish, however that has proven to be quite the endeavor. She gets the general idea of how to play, but between not really knowing to check all her cards when asked for one...or deciding that she really doesn't want to give away any of the cards, it makes for a frustrating time. We try to explain that when she doesn't play the game by the rules (i.e. holding onto cards) that it's not right or fair and is called cheating. It's taking some time, but she's slowly getting it. Another game we got to play as a family is Monopoly Jr. She's really good at it and totally understands that one. She regularly wins. Of course when she gets older I'm going to teach her the regular Monopoly game which I love and then "it's on!". hehe.
Halloween proved to be a very fun time as we went over to out friends Jeff and Val's place and Autumn got to trick-or-treat with her little co-hort Malia. I just can't get over how much alike those two act and man do they love spending time together. We took them around the neighbourhood and watched as they went from these timid and quiet little girls to loud, screaming "trick or treat" before even reaching the porches spicy girls. Afterwards we had dinner and the girls got to play and have fun. I took some video of them being particularly silly and hope to post that soon. It's sooooo funny!
We went to a neat place call Mr. Biggs today. It has bowling, miniature golf, pool, arcade games, go-carts, etc. Autumn played her first round of miniature golf. She's been playing the Wii Sports golf for a bit now, but this was her first time trying it with a club and ball for real. It was fun to watch and fun trying to teach her how to do it. Mom and I bowled a couple of games...something we hadn't done in a long time. We saw that they had these ramp things that little kids and disabled people could use to bowl with so next time we'll let Autumn in on the bowling action too.
Autumn's doing well in both her Pre-K and JCCC school. In fact she's already been talking about going to kindergarten next year. Due mostly to the fact that a few of her friends started kindergarten this fall I'm sure. She's really been working hard at counting and some simple addition and subtraction (the Monopoly Jr helps with that). She's still working at trying to sound out words and is doing okay at recognising words that we read to her and trying to remember them when she sees them. It's so weird to watch this develop because obviously we can't remember when we were that young and trying to figure out how to read. It's also pretty neat and fun...especially when she gets close to getting it right or does gets it right.
In other thoughts...it's hard to believe that the end of the year is coming. We just passed the 3 year anni of her referral and in just over a month, 3 years since we first saw and held her in ChongQing. It's also quite hard to believe that another Thanksgiving and Christmas is just around the bend.
Well, enjoy the photos and I hope to post more soon!
