Here I am again. I blogged a super fascinating account of our festive Halloween activities, but I lost it all trying to put a picture on here. So I'll try to be clever and interesting again, but it's a 1/2 hour later and I've been a bit busy today, yesterday and Sat. So here goes.
We had a lovely evening out tonight. The weather was crisp, but not cold. The rain ended at noon as predicted, couldn't have been nicer. Kat, Abby and Em were enthusiastic trick or treaters. Kat got a big kick out of the grown-ups who enjoyed her costume. She was dressed as "Miss Diagnosed", a beauty queen who shouldn't have been given the crown. She had 1/2 her hair in a fancy updo and 1/2 in curlers, lots of makeup, pink crown, velvet dress, converse tennies and yellowed pirate teeth with her arm in a sling. The kids we saw didn't "get" Kat's costume, but all the adults we saw did and Kat enjoyed that so much, cracked me up.
Em was a princess--again. Hope the girls don't tell her that you can be something different. She looked totally adorable and heard every word who told her how pretty she was. :) Abby was a cheerleader and didn't know any cheers and got tired of her pompons quickly. Luckily I know lots of cheers and helped her out.
We did get properly scared as one should on Halloween. There a guy on our back street that wears stilts and has a monster outfit on. Em didn't want to go by him, but I walked her by safely, but he followed us a little way, until I scared him away. Then I teased him with my flashlight from across the street, that freaked Em out when he started to chase us. Then we went into a homemade garage haunted house with jumping monster guys. She wanted to go in, then I couldn't get her out b/c she was frozen and screaming. Then I had to go in with all the "chicken kids" and screamed with them. Don't know how those teenage boys managed to scare everyone after I left with all my added "fear factor" screaming. LOL Luckily for Em we were almost home. We just had to get our Capri Sun from our neighbor and we were home. Em wouldn't even go in the van to the girls' first grade teacher whom she loves. They were all tired and asleep by the time I got up to kiss them after being in bed 5 min.
It was a busy holiday weekend. H marched in the Halloween parade around the square. We did trick or treating before the parade. So cool to be a drummer, you get to play the whole parade. She LOVED it!! The costume for H had it's own drama---argh!! We went to the Enchanted Forest on Sat night with our neighbors and some extra kids. It was a lovely night to walk the nature trails and see some skits by costumed nursery characters. The girls really enjoyed it. We got to go on a hayride around the lake, so nice. It was worth the hour wait, which was a long time for us. On Sunday we had a Halloween parade thru our subdivision with snack and a costume contest at the end. Ab and Em both won their categories, but didn't get the prizes. Who judges these things? How could anyone be cuter than Abby or prettier than Princess Em? Oh, well, they all got candy so that works. :)
We had parties at school today. I helped in Abby's class. The 2nd graders don't know that parties are wild times so they were very calm and nice. I checked on Kat's party. She was playing a game and the mom in charge was on her cell phone with a class full of 4th graders just sitting there. Yay!! If you complain about these things, they put you in charge. So I quietly walked away, Kat said it was all ok and I believed her. lol
Had a nice visit with Jess this evening. She got to hook up with the JC kids at Homecoming. I was glad to hear about that. She continues to do well, is wise beyond her years and learning so much about herself, others, her faith etc..... what a cool kid!!
So there you have it. I won't try to post a picture here, but may try tomorrow. Fire me an email if you didn't get one there and I'll send you one, if this doesn't work. Joy K got pix on, maybe I can too. All for now. This tired holiday mom is headed to bed.
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