Happy (belated) Halloween!

She doesn't look very happy in this photo, but I think that is all part of the costume. Emily had been looking forward to Halloween for a very long time. They dressed up for school last Friday, so yesterday was a regular uniform day. She also had a couple of friends over for a Halloween sleepover last Friday night, but they didn't do as much Halloween-related activities as she had hoped. On Sunday, we baked pumpkin spice cakes in the skull-shaped muffin tins. Then, last night she went trick-or-treating with the same two girls that slept over on Friday night. All in all, there were lots of activities, but she wasn't as happy with this Halloween as she had hoped. She worried that maybe she is getting too old for Halloween, which I assured her she wasn't.

Annual School Photo

As for other updates, Emily had her annual check-up a few weeks ago. She is now 4'11.5" which puts her in the 36.6th percentile and keeps open the possibility that she will ultimately be taller than Abbie. Of course, this delights her to no end. :) At school, the first quarter is over and we received Emily's report card. She is doing well and has a 92.8 overall GPA. We were supposed to have her parent-teacher conference last week, but her advisor was sick and needed to cancel at the last minute. We will need to reschedule and I'll keep you posted on any nuggets that come out of that meeting.

Finally, it may not be scary, but it is a bit gory - Pumpkin the kitty managed to get a nasty puncture wound on her chest. We have no idea how it happened, but it was pussy and infected so we had to take her to the vet last week. The result is that poor kitty needs to wear the cone of shame for 10-14 days. This is a double-whammy for her because she can't go outside with the cone on. Needless to say, she is not a fan of the cone. We did have a good laugh at her expense, though, because when we brought her home, she ran around the house backwards, desperately trying to get the cone off her head. She has since accepted her fate and has quit meowing constantly. This has also been a good excuse to feed her some extra tuna fish, which doesn't hurt her feelings.