As a surprise to us all, Kyle decided not to be a firefighter on Halloween this year. Instead he was a zookeeper. (He was a firefighter for the trick-or-treating on Sunday in downtown Westfield.) As another surprise, we ended up trick-or-treating with snow on the sidewalks in Westfield. Here are a couple of photos.
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As many of your know, Kyle graduated from pre-school yesterday. The school hosted a very cute ceremony. The class sang a bunch of songs, each led by 2-3 students, along with a few other things. Kyle got to lead the class in counting to 10 in German. He did an excellent job. They also called each child up and handed them each a diploma. Afterward, we had nice dinner at the Westfield Diner where Kyle got to have chocolate chip pancakes.
I just finished uploading some new photos of Kyle. Enjoy.
I also added a “I’m 5 Years Old” photo to the collection.
I know I’ve been remiss about not getting photos up earlier. Well, I just added a number from May and June including Kyle and Suzanne’s trip to Sesame Place and our trip to Wesport, MA with my mom’s family. Please enjoy.
I hope to have more photos from Westport and some photos from the 4th of July up in the next few days as well, so be sure to check back if you’re interested.
We hope everyone else is doing well.
We had a very nice holiday time. Jack and Mary Lou came up for Christmas and a few days afterward.
Photos of Kyle from Nov & Dec 2009.
For Kyle and my actual birthdays we simply did dinner out and presents. We did have a party for Kyle, but delayed it until Jan 23rd to avoid the holiday rush. Suzanne did all of the work and it was a great time for all the kids. We had it at the building in the park near our house as our place is far too small for 14 kids. We got lucky as the weather was pretty good (sunny but a bit cool), so the kids could play in the playground for some time.
Photos of Kyle from Jan & Feb 2010.
In terms of things upcoming, our big news is that Suzanne and I are heading to Istanbul, Tukey for a week in March. Suzanne found out a couple of weeks ago that the five vacation days she carried over from last year had to be used by the end of March. We looked around at what to do and had settled on spending a few days in Charleston, SC (about three hours from Jack & Mary Lou’s house) after considering a cruise and Europe. I attended a talk by Arthur Frommer (of guidebook fame) at the Boston Public Library and he mentioned some deals on his blog, one of which was a special trip to Istanbul for 4 nights including air and hotel for $900 each including taxes, etc. We figured we wouldn’t get such an oppurtunity again, so we went for it. It should be exciting and will definitely be different from anywhere else we’ve traveled.
We hope everyone is having a good holiday time. Ours is going fine, though hectic between me still commuting to and from Boston every week, our basement getting flooded (not to a large extent, but enough to ruin a lot of the stuff we had stored down there), and the snowstorm last weekend. I have the whole week between Christmas and New Years off (Dec 24th – Jan 3rd), so it will be nice to be home for a long stretch. (Suzanne has to work Mon – Wed, but they should be light days.)
I just added some photos of Kyle to a couple of the galleries on the website:
