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Just a quick coin update ...
14 large dollars, 166 small dollars and 11 half dollars had nothing.
5,680 quarters produced one silver Washington (1956), six Canadians, two Bermuda 25¢ and one German Mark (1990).
800 dimes yielded just one Polish 10 Grozny.
400 nickels had one Canadian (1 Ni).
1,500 pennies turned up four Wheats (1941, 1946, 1953D, 1952D), nine Canadians and one UK penny.
Found: 1 nickel
Yesterday Meg picked up a Halloween costume for Henry. It's a construction worker set and was his choice. He seems very excited about it and was wearing the vest and hat for most of last night. We still need to make him an ID badge. Hazel is going to be a chicken. Meg's working on her costume.
5,240 quarters had just five Canadians, one US nickel, one US penny and one Bahamas 25¢.
2,300 dimes produced one Canadian and one UK 5 pence.
1,320 nickels rounded up one War Time (1945P), two Canadians and one US dime.
3,500 pennies yielded fifteen Wheats (including one Steelie) and twenty-nine Canadians.
1939, 1942, 1943S, 1944(2), 1945(3), 1945D, 1951(2), 1955, 1957(2), 1957D
The weekend was pretty good for us. We could have done with out the weird late September humidity, but oh well.
On Friday we tried a new restaurant. I don't think we'll go back to that one. Hazel's a bit tough at restaurants these days, but even discounting that the food wasn't so good and the portions were small. On Saturday morning I took the kids to my parents to play, have lunch and pick out pumpkins from Grandpa's garden. Henry's pretty excited about the pumpkins. That evening I tried to shop for more Henry clothes. It didn't go too well. Sunday brought us all to church. Henry did well at church school and Hazel did well in the nursery (Meg was there with her the whole time). I took both of the kids the playground after Hazel's nap. They both did really well there. Henry even gave up a toy for a small girl when I asked him to. They were both excited by a small block with ten on it that Hazel found. After that we went clothes shopping at Kohls. I had to steer two carts there by myself, but the kids had fun "racing" in them and I picked up lots of good clothes, cheap! We capped off our fun, late afternoon with a trip to Pet Smart. Both of them thought that was great. At home Meg made some sweet smelling fresh tomato sauce that I'm anxious to try.
73 small dollars didn't have anything.
8,010 half dollars produced eight 40% silver halves (1965, 2 x 1967, 4 x 1968D, 1969D).
1,400 quarters had six Canadians, two US nickel and one US dime.
1,950 dimes yielded one silver Rosie (1957) and one US penny.
1,520 nickels turned up one dateless Buffalo (first Buffalo since August 22nd), four Canadians (1 Ni) and what I think is a 1963 Proof nickel.
15,050 pennies rounded up eighty-two Wheats, eighty-two Canadians, three US dimes, one Trinidad and Tobago 1¢, one UK penny and two Euro 2¢. The pennies I've searched lately have been light.
1930, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940(2), 1941(3), 1941D, 1942, 1944(7), 1944S, 1945(6), 1946(2), 1947(2), 1948(3), 1949, 1950D, 1951, 1951D, 1952(4), 1952D(3), 1953, 1953D(5), 1953S, 1955(4), 1955D(2), 1956(6), 1956D(2), 1957(4), 1957D(5), 1958(5), 1958D(4)
Found: 2 pennies, 1 nickel
Last night I was trying to avoid another drawn out, fitful start to bedtime with Henry, so I asked him, "do you want to move your bed somewhere different?" (Henry's been sleeping on just his mattress for some time now because a few months back he decided that his bed gave him nightmares.) He said, "let's put it on that thing!" as he pointed to his bed frame. "Just for tonight," he then said. Hmmm. I think I'll be suggesting that again.
9,450 pennies turned up twenty-five Wheats, thirty-five Canadians, two US dimes and one Barbados 1¢.
1918, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1944(2), 1945, 1946(2), 1949(2), 1951D, 1952, 1952D, 1952D, 1953D, 1953S, 1954, 1955(2), 1956, 1956D, 1957D, 1958D
Found: 1 penny, 1 nickel
Today I got a nice call from Meg after she dropped Henry off at school. Sometime this morning Henry told Meg that he liked a boy in his class (he named him) even though he talked funny and other kids didn't like him. That makes me a bit sad, but also proud that Henry was accepting. I hope Henry continues to make new friends.
Yesterday Meg was surprised by Henry. He came into the living room asking how to put blush on. He was trying to put it on his mouth. He then put it over his cheeks and used eye shadow somehow. Before a Home Depot trip Meg cleaned him off. At least he didn't put it all over his little sister!
Hazel slept through the night for another night!
Last night's coins were decent.
81 small dollars had nothing.
5,520 quarters turned up one silver Washington (1964), seven Canadians, two US pennies, two US nickels and an Angel medal.
2,500 dimes produced two silver Rosies (1947, 1963) and three Canadians.
2,040 nickels rounded up three War Times (1943S, 1945S), three Canadians and one Bermuda 5¢.
5,000 pennies twenty-seven Wheats, twenty-three Canadians and one UK penny.
1913, 1923, 1935, 1937(2), 1938, 1940, 1944, 1945(3), 1946(2), 1948, 1949, 1950D, 1951D, 192D, 1953(2), 1956(3), 1957, 1957D(2), 1958D
Found: 1 penny
Last night's coins were rather dull ...
6,240 quarters had four Canadians, ten US nickels and one US penny (1944).
3,600 dimes produced one silver Rosie (1947), four Canadians and one UK 5 pence.
1,600 nickels yielded one War Time (1943P), four Canadians (1 Ni), one Cayman Islands 10¢ and two US dimes.
5,000 pennies rounded up nineteen Wheats, twenty Canadians, two US dimes, one UK penny and one Euro 2¢.
1918, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1944, 1944D, 1950S, 1952, 1953, 1953D, 1955(2), 1957D(3), 1958, 1958D
Yesterday Henry decided to make a special yogurt with his own recipe. He was very proud of this and asked Meg to cover it with Saran Wrap so he could put it in the fridge. He said it'd take ten hours to finish and then asked Meg, "is that a long time?" Before supper he set four dessert bowls on the table and towards the end of supper he put a bit of corn bread in each bowl and "drizzled" his unique concoction on top of them. There was a bowl for each of us. Meg was the first to try the special sauce ... it wasn't too good (a lot of oregano and lime went into it). Henry was next and made one terrible face when he tried it; saying, "that's not too good." Hazel was third, grabbing a large spoonful, she made her yuck face, did a shake or two and finished it all. I tried it last ... I had too. An auspicious, but cute start, that's for sure!
56 small dollars and 9 half dollars had one 40% silver half (1969D).
7,760 quarters produced three silver Washingtons (1943, 1953D, 1957D), twelve Canadians, one UK 10 pence, fourteen US nickels and five US dimes. It was really cool to have my good silver quarter streak continue. Three in one sitting is really good for me ... and no 1964's! (It came at the cost of being short changed $3.55 because of the nickels and dimes, but I still came out ahead, I think.)
6,700 dimes rounded up two silver Rosies (1946, 1964D), ten Canadians, two UK 5 pence and one US penny.
2,080 nickels yielded seven Canadians (3 Ni), one Bermuda 5¢ and one US dime. I'm still not having that much luck with nickels.
Yesterday wasn't a great day for me, but I felt like my luck was turning around when I found a pile of foreign coins on top of a Coin Star machine. There were fifty-two coins in all (fifty-one of which were foreign) and a convenient ziploc bag to put them in! The mix included one US nickel, three Canadians pennies, one Euro 1¢, two Euro 2¢, one Euro 50¢ (75¢ in Euros), one South Africa 5¢, three South Africa 10¢, one South Africa 50¢ (12¢ in South African Rands), six Thai 1 Baht, two Thai 5 Baht, two Thai 10 ¢ ($1.18 in Thai Baht), two Mexican 50¢, one Mexican $2 (23¢ in Mexican Pesos), two Hungarian 2 Forint, one Hungarian 5 Forint (4¢ in Hungarian Forint), three South Korean 10 Won, one South Korean 100 Won (12¢ in South Korean Won), two Costa Rica 100 Colones (40¢ in Costa Rica Colones), twelve Japanese 1¥ and three Japanese 10¥ (55¢ in Japanese ¥). Unfortunately there weren't any new countries in there for me, but I did get a lot of new types. 
Found: 1 nickel, 51 foreign coins (see above)