something borrowed

my kiddos

jair and emily

me and dorita. you're not supposed to have favorites, but...

cupcakes for days

another fav: arturo

costumes

frankenstein

remember my infant II class? well here they are again! with some stickers i gave them!

they look so happy to be at school, right?

snow white looks ready to fight

hilcias. what he was, i'll never know...

thank god for mr. mucul and his camera's memory card and his willingness to lend it to me.

while i think it would have been infinitely cooler to be the transformer bumble bee, i settled dressing up as the regular kind yesterday. the bug kind. or insect. or whatever. you know what i mean.

yesterday was our halloween festivities at school and i made my class cupcakes, dressed as a bee, and all around had a pretty wonderful day at school.

the day started out with an assembly. like all the other times we've had an assembly, it's outside... and hot. the students got called up by level for those who came to school in their costumes and paraded around the school in a line. the lower grades went trick or treating in their classrooms and the older levels were for the most part, of course, too cool to wear their costumes to school. the others were shameless and wore them anyways.

my kids were pretty excited about the cupcakes. usually when there are baked goods at school it's a fundraiser and they need to buy them, so they didn't understand why i would want to give them cupcakes... and for free. i explained it's because i love them. they worked hard that afternoon and wrote letters to their pen pals. a 6th grade class at my mom's school has been corresponding with my class. i am going to get the opportunity to talk to the 6th grade class when i return to the states and my kids are excited for me to meet their friends. : )

after school i went straight to the hospital because fiona had her baby. little baby ayden. i got to spend 3 hours with this precious little boy, but i will post something about that later today or tomorrow.

after i finished my time at the hospital i went to the "halloween disco" at school. always an interesting experience to see kids who are middle school aged at a school dance. i think it was a semi-unsuccessful fundraiser for our sports committee... but the kids that went had fun. and we made sure that they all got home safely.

i will try and write a lot this weekend and post some recent pictures since i have the memory card until monday... then i'll be back to my camera-less self. it's a person i don't really enjoy.

only about a month left here in belize...

love to all.

xox