First, great news with Finn... he went for a checkup today, and the pediatrician gave him a clean bill of health. He is 100% better, smiling, and growing like crazy!
In the US, October 31st is Halloween. Kids dress in costumes, and "trick or treat" door to door to collect candy. While they dont celebrate Halloween in the Netherlands, Dutch kids have another holiday where they get to collect candy and give parents nightmares of dentist bills...
November 11th is St. Martin's day. Children make paper lanterns and go door to door singing St. Martin songs for a treat. Leah made her own lantern (lampion in Dutch), and learned a little song roughly translated as:
"11 November is the day that my light, that my light burns bright"
An even more popular song, popular with kids but maybe not the parents:
Saint Martin knick knack
Your mother is a fat sack
Your father is a thinnie
Give me a pepermintie
I wont go into the whole history of the holday, but for those historians wikipedia has this great article on it:
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