Signe’s artwork

She really enjoys her art classes at school, and these are 2 she did in 6th grade that Signe just brought home. Signe said she especially spent a lot of time working on the moon.

Snow *sigh*

They need to go to bed soon, but my kids are having fun scraping snow off the deck and attempting snowball fights. While I know a November 3rd snowfall isn't all that unusual (according to locals), in our 9 years
in Moscow it beats our previously earliest snowfall by a few weeks. It is supposed to be another rough winter... and I'm not sure I ever completely recovered from the last one!

Halloween oops!

In our rush to get out the door we didn't get our annual pic this year. At the harvest festival Signe got 2nd place in her age category as chewed-up gum (she dressed all in stuffed pink with pink face paint, with a shoe tied to the top of her head). Karsten got 3rd place as Darth Vader, which was a repeat of Zane's costume last year. Darth Vader is common enough, but I think Karsten got bonus points for posing with Darth's choke hold. Zane was a ninja, and Gunnar merely reprised his Greek Perseus toga due to a lack of planning ahead.

Spokane speech meet

Nick volunteered yesterday to drive up several boys to the inner-school speech meet, which involved 5 schools and hundreds of participants. Zane and Gunnar both did awesome and earned blue ribbons