red, orange & red leaves, pumpkins, halloween, cold & breezy

fall is coming...

it's nice to see the changes of colors, lots of falling leaves, carving some pumpkins, halloween, feeling warm inside the house and have some fun activities too!

I got the chance to go to a pumpkin patch this year. It was at the Jacquemin Farms http://www.jacqueminfarms.com/ with my school, Kindermusik. Tante Yiklit and Om Dudud came along with us, and we picked a big pumpkin, and 2 small pumpkins for me and Matt.

I took a hayride to the patch and I rode an unused tractor on the sie. It was awesome to see hundreds of pumpkins there. I would picked the biggest pumpkin if I can carry it :)

I watched tante-tante carved the pumpkins. I like the cat better :) Mommy made some cookies with the pumpkins, om Piter cooked pumpkin soup, and Matt's grandma cooked the pumpkin like labu siyem, which I like :)

I went to the zoo early in the morning with my playgroups friends, Alexander, Avery, Hope & Clara. It was pretty chilly in the morning. I have to wear my gloves and hat. There're no more rides except merry go round, because the season is over. I saw some big animals up close, like bison, grizzly bears, moose, eagles and also wolves, sea otters who were very playful.

(Watching the big Bison eating some frozen grass)

(Playing with the Recycle Wheel inside the Habitat Hollow with Clara)

When the Halloween came, I dressed up as a cute little froggy. I went to Glen's house for trick or treat. So many kids and grown-up were dressed up. All my Indonesian friends were dressed up too. They're: Abby the sweet ladybug , Glen the Batman, Sammy the little Nemo, Andrew the Caterpillar, Jacelyn the Pink Unicorn, Matt the little Zebra, and even Michael the sleepy little doggie :) I got a bunch of sweets, but I can eat just 2 pieces :( I had diarrhea a couple days before the halloween. It was fun to go with some friends and collect candies, eventhough I saw some scary decorations with scary sounds and scary people with costumes.

daddy's birthday

Today, October 22nd is Daddy's birthday.
Last night, when I was ready to snooze, suddenly I heard a loud noise of people singing happy birthday to Daddy as they passed my bedroom. I was shocked and jumped out of the bed. When mommy checked me out, I started to cry. I don't know why, maybe I was in shocked.

Then everyone went down to cut the cake. It was a tiramisu cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory (I took some bites for my breakfast this morning, yuumm.. :) When I got back and realized that everyone was there to give a surprise for daddy, suddenly the front door open and I saw om Lester, Piter and Erik saying 'surprise'! And I was shocked and cried out loud again :)
But then it was fun to play with the candles and saw everyone eat the cake and some ate dinner's leftover.

Thank you om Ricat, Dudud, Piauw, Ray, Lester, Piter and Erik, and also my new lovely babysitter, tante Janet :)
It was a surprise and lovely night.. and Daddy asked me to sleep with him last night.

Here's a gadget for daddy, for his love of grilling :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DADDY! love you, nitey nite, sleep tight, sweet dreams...

going on 3

I will be 3 this December, and there're a lot of changes in my characters, attitudes, knowledges, and inteligence beginning on my 2.5 years of age. Here what's happening...

Start last summer, around late June, I started to love 'Oasis' Xenos Children Ministry. I starts to involve in some activities and socialize with other kids. I still remember how hard it was for mommy to put me there that mommy decided not to take me to Oasis for at least 6 months, because I would scream and cry for at least 30 minutes until mommy got paged every week.

And now, I go to Xenos every week with a ritual of getting a donut after the class and play for a while at the playground. Sometimes we have the same ritual accompanies with Quinny.

My involvement in Xenos' playgroup also make a big deal on how I feels more secure to play with Americans. I starts to learn English and communicate with my American friends in a language that is super hilarious, said Mommy. English, mix Indonesian with Javanese accent and some make-up words.

"Alexandeh, whatca doing?... I'm having the saos.. Hey, why you doing that?... Is mine.. It's my mainan"

(That's my friend Alexander on the picture while we tried to find fish in the creek)

I also like to read, write and color. I like writing the letter 'H', and learn to color inside the boundaries. I can read letter A,B,C,H,J,N,O,S, and T. I love to sing and learn many new songs. Mommy sang to me Indonesia Raya the other night before bed and after the lights off, I sang out loud,"Indonesiaaa.. darahku tumpah di tanah!" Mommy was exploding with laugh and ran to tell Daddy.

Other thing, I just love playing with my closest friends, Andrew and Matthew. We have different characters, but they know me the most and we grow together.

Mommy says it's just lovely to have me around, to see how silly I act, say funny words and sentences, and also to see how smart I am, even though I still needs some time-outs, but it's part of my learning process. I am a toddler, a stage of learning, growing and loving, so everyone should bear and keep up with me...