New school, and counting down the days until Halloween

Our September is going great so far. Isa started school on the 3rd. It's a half-day program three times a week, and she really enjoys it. She loves making art and singing songs the best. When we go to pick her up, we can hear all the kids singing the "Pollywog song" through the door.

Here's her smiley first day of school photo:

Her favorite lunch is peanut butter and jelly, but she also likes monkey sandwiches (Justin's hazelnut spread and bananas). This week I made her some pepperoni rolls cheese rolls since she decided she doesn't like pepperoni. Hopefully she'll eat those for lunch as a pb&j alternative. Dan and I sure loved them. The recipe is here. But since Dan is allergic to eggs I used a blob of vegan mayonnaise, and it worked fine. I also stuffed the cheese-only ones with ricotta. We'll be making these again soon.

We were going to go to the museum today, but it rained, so we mostly stayed inside except for a quick trip out to collect acorns and draw on the deck with chalk. We painted some butterfly magnets and then we got the Halloween bin out of the attic.

Ohhh, the Halloween bin. Isa loves Halloween as much as we do. Halloween may be my favorite holiday. I don't have to shop, I don't have to cook, and the sole purpose is to dress up and eat candy. We had a great time going through the decorations, putting them out, and playing with all the Halloween toys. Isa came up with a great costume:

She also made up a Halloween song. It went something like this:

Spooky spooky spooky spooky halloween!
Tall trees that have lights on them
You better run away
Or you'll get a surprise
Spooky spooky spooky everything
Spooky spooky spooky spiders

That's all I remember but I got a recording of the part where she switched to singing "Monster monster monster." I'll post that later. I'm being summoned to play Sims 2 before bedtime.