Ingrid with a bitten-off chocolate egg.

After dinner, each kid gets a small sweet: a piece of candy, a chocolate praline, a cookie etc. Adrian usually prefers a piece of chocolate. Ingrid’s preferences vary.

Each has their candy stash. We never buy candy (except for handing out during Halloween and Easter) but it tends to accumulate anyway, mostly from birthday parties. More comes in than gets eaten, so it piles up. It wouldn’t surprise me if this chocolate egg had actually been waiting since Easter.

Waiting for Ingrid’s afternoon Estonian class to finish.

Another day, another banana. Or two. Or eight. I think the kids ate eight bananas this afternoon alone.

Adrian got a box of kinetic sand for his birthday. We played with it this afternoon. We made volcanoes and dragons.

The very last and final birthday party for this season: Ingrid’s and Adrian’s combined celebration with the extended families (grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins). Almost like Christmas, in fact, with lots of people and lots of gifts, and slightly too much cake – but with Halloween-themed decorations instead of a tree.

We had Ingrid’s Halloween-themed birthday party today.

Wants yoghurt. Grabs spoon from drawer. Done. Doesn’t even think about closing the drawer.
Eats yoghurt. Done. Discards the yoghurt pot right there.

It seems to me like kids (mine at least) have extreme tunnel vision. They don’t seem to notice anything outside their immediate focus zone. Things that I see as mess, they just don’t see at all.

On our way back from the riding hall to the stables, after Ingrid’s riding lesson.
Normally we would also have the pony with us, but the one she rode today stayed in the riding hall for another lesson.

Shoelace.

Macro photography is wonderfully calming.

The headless stick horse gets his head back.

Ingrid with her iPad. She likes to have the brightness turned up to the max.