October has been a warm month. We got to do a lot of outing.
Max got SWAT uniform this year for the Halloween.
He likes it very much and posed for quite a few pictures.
This is Renee's second year for kids soccer. She is getting better although sometimes we wish she just go for the ball. This is not unexpected though as we know that is part of her personality to deal with as she grows up.
Max had his first Den adventure, backyard jungle. We built a bird house together as the last activity.
I took Max and Renee to Geocaching when waiting for the swimming class.
As volunteer, I went on the field trip with Max and his friends.
They really liked paying with the goats. It appears that the goats like them too.
This year, Renee is the vampire queen. We went to the event and she got to feel the snake.
This has become a tradition for Halloween.
With the dress, Renee looks like a grown up girl.
Renee joined Max for another Scouts event, Red Ribbon week.
We tied the red ribbons around the campus as reminder of saying no to drugs.
As a family we joined the first scouts night-out! Renee liked it so much that she started asking if she can join the girl scouts. We had to explain to her that it might be a different program.
In the morning, we got up and did an early hike.
Renee took a picture in front of a decorated house at the Halloween night. We joined Max's friend, Ben on the trick-or-treat.
This is the second night out for the scouts. We stayed overnight at the Academy of Science. It is pretty cool to see all the shows and the exhibition without the crowd. But with $90 per person, it turned out to be pretty costly for the family.
On the second day morning, we took the opportunity and shot a picture without anyone else in sight.
The family went on a bike trip and hunting the geocach along the way. This is one that we found at one of the vertical poles at the fence. After that discovery, Renee and Max tried to rock all the fences. That habit was quickly put to stop.
We took a few group selfies along the way.
This is another bike trip that we took at a nearby park.
Renee and Max decided to climb all the way up before their kungfu class. For their kungfu learning, Max shows good sense of the form but sloppy on the details, probably due to lack of enough practice. Renee has good basic skills from the dancing and gym practice. She is still learning to get a hang of kungfu.
Max really loves building stuff out of the blocks. He can focus on it for a long time. We start getting ones that is aimed to be older kids. He enjoys them much more. I just need to stick around on the few cases where he does not have enough strength yet. 
We continue having the monthly Den meeting with Cub Scouts. Here are the tigers playing outside at the end of one meeting.
I served as a chaperon for a Renee's school trip to the oldest school in town. We all dressed up and lived in year 1888 for half a day.
During the recess, we played the games in those days. They were actually pretty fun.
Renee learned to use the feather pen to write and use the paper towel to dry the ink. Renee felt very proud after because she wrote the whole thing without a mistake.
Max is playing piano now. He has been making pretty good progress to our relief. The teacher appears to like him too.
Renee joined a team for "Destination Imagination" competition. They met frequently to build a structure, build the scene, and make a play. Even though we didn't get to go to the state, we all enjoyed the time and learning tremendously. 
Max and his team took this picture for the driver's license. However, he got sick and was not able to join the Pinewood Derby race. 
