We began our Halloween celebration on Friday at Tucker’s school. Everyone dressed up as a character from a story and brought their book in for show-and-tell, then they paraded around into the other four year-old class.
Tucker dressed up as Ben, our dog, this year. He was quite adamant that he was NOT Spot the dog, but I managed to still send him with a Spot book because surprisingly, Ben is not the main character in any books that we own.
I got his costume off ebay but it was too small so I had to use some fabric from the legs to extend the hood and then make the costume end with the body and not have legs. It worked well enough. Tucker was happy.
Molly enthusiastically helped celebrate at Tucker’s school. She especially enjoyed her first strawberry cupcake.
Tucker’s class (one little boy is missing)
Tucker’s beloved Miss Karen and Miss Kim
Our actual Halloween day celebration was a bit chaotic. Tucker fell asleep during rest time (a once a month occurrence) so we missed our afternoon festivities. Which meant that Molly celebrated Halloween by screaming while I put her ladybug costume on and then wearing it for about 10 minutes on the porch before going to bed. She was especially not impressed by the hood. Wearing a hood is child abuse, in case you didn’t know. But at least she posed for a few pictures. She also had a ballerina outfit, but it is a little small and I couldn’t manage to get her in it. I think if she worked on being more docile it might be possible, but not with her current commitment to cooperation and dressing up.
We ended up going trick-or-treating in a friend’s neighborhood at the last minute since we slept through our afternoon festivities. Tucker’s never done actual trick-or-treating before and I think it was a little scary but very fun. My friend Katy had told me that her neighborhood was known as THE Halloween neighborhood in our area, but I was not prepared for all the streets to be completely lined with the cars of people who had driven in just to trick-or-treat. It was a complete zoo. The houses in the neighborhood were decked out, though I celebrated by helping pass out candy while my mom accompanied the trick-or-treaters.
Ben and Ben
Enjoying the fruits of a long evening.
