Halloween 2012

 

It was a very busy day this year.

In the morning before school Ally opened her Halloween cards – thank you Grandma Debbie, Grandma Barbie and Great Aunt Martha.

Ally wore a dress Mama made her 2 years ago – it still fit. Very cute owl fabric with a fun stripe ruffle. Ally received compliments all day.

After lunch there was a Halloween party at school – I took the afternoon off and spent it helping out in the classroom. The kids made fruit salad, decorated cookies and created jack-o-lantern masks.

I had fun in Ally’s class – after snack we sang songs. Above are the word to one song.

After school Ally and I went to a Halloween party at our local library. She made a monster craft and then we looked at books. We came home with 6 books on dinosaurs. Recently Ally asked for some books on science, so I asked the librarian where the kids science books were and Ally loved it!

After the library we came home and carved a pumpkin. Ally asked if she could sort the seeds from the guts – she loves to touch the guts! Then Becky carved the pumpkin based on a drawing Ally made.

After a quick dinner it was off to Liem’s house to meet up with our neighborhood friends for trick or treating. Ally dressed up in her peacock costume for trick or treating.

Here is the gang – from left to right; Liem (ninja), Lila (butterfly), River (zombie football player), Olive (Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz), Ally, Max (dragon), Millie (bumblebee) and Aiden (Robin Hood)

Then we made the dressed up parents join in for a group shot!

Finally it was off to trick or treating.

Ally was so into it this year. She would go right up to a house, knock or ring the bell if she could reach it.

She had so much fun.

We stopped at our house for treats and eventually said good bye to our friends.

Then it was back to our house to hand out the 100 pieces of candy we bought.

A highlight for Ally was that a group of older girls from her school came. It was her reading buddy Sophie from last year and a bunch of her friends. They were so sweet to Ally – they complimented her costume and told her she looked pretty. Ally was beaming the entire time.

And could not stop beaming the rest of the night.

Ally ate one piece of candy all night – a Kit Kat – she even broke it apart.

She did try a whopper but made a face and said “its too spicy for me”

A friend of ours was walking home and I said hi – she came in the yard and we realized she was dressed up as a peacock too! I think it made Celeste’s night and we had to get a picture of the only 2 peacocks we had seen all day.

It was a great Halloween.