Halloween is a busy day around here. There's a preschool trick-or-treat around the downtown stores, and then in the evening we always trick or treat around our neighborhood. This year was no exception, although it's hard to believe that after six years, this will be my last year taking a child around downtown. These kiddos are getting big!
This year Caroline was a character from her newest favorite book, Ladybug Girl. The girl in the book is even named Lulu, and since we call our girl Carol-lou, or Lou, or Lula, she seems like a perfect match. Caroline was extra excited because she had outgrown her rainboots last year, and we've been waiting for her size to come in at the army surplus store down the street--and on the weekend before Halloween they finally did: so my ladybug girl had ladybug rainboots to wear just like the ones in the story. I don't think you can see them in any of these pictures, but they might make it into some other photos this winter.
Jack was a pirate again this year, with the addition of his talking parrot, which was fun to take to school. He was wanting to be something scary, and we decided that the parrot startling people would be scary enough (just ask Grandma Jo--once the parrot said something when she was babysitting and the power had unexpectedly gone out. That parrot can be scary!)
The rest of the pictures tell the story of our day. First we have Caroline with her best monkey friend Marilyn, ready to go visit the downtown shops.
Lindsey, Graham, Marilyn, Caroline and I. Check out the next picture for an explanation of my outfit. I am awfully lucky to have such a close friend who lives so near, and with kids similar ages. Marilyn and Caroline also go to preschool together, and they're such good friends that Linds and I have both mistakenly called them Mar-oline and Car-ilyn.
Caroline as a pumpkin.
Do we look alike? Could we be sisters? We were Waldo for Halloween--or actually one of the other girls at the store, Khrista, was Waldo, and we were the imitators. Or maybe we were Wenda?
Two kiddos ready to go trick or treating around the neighborhood. Doesn't that pirate look tough? He's pretty good at saying "Arrrgh matey," "batten down the hatches," and "shiver me timbers." Trace even taught him a pirate joke: where do all pirates come from? Arrrrgh-kansas. I'm not sure Jack knows why it's funny, but he repeats it with a nice growl!
Oh, in the middle of the day Caroline had her Monday ballet practice. In the midst of getting two kids, their costumes, and a Halloween snack for Jack's class (this was easy and cute, but time-consuming), I forgot Caroline's ballet bag with her ballet and tap shoes in it. The first part of her class is ballet, and then the last fifteen minutes they work on their tap moves. I ran home and got her shoes, so I missed the ballet, but I thought I'd share this video I took of the little girls, in costume, practicing their tap to Kermit the Frog's Happy Feet. Too cute!
3 comments:
WoW! That's impressive tap dancing, Caroline! You're a lot better than me!
I love all the costumes, I wish I could hear Jacks "Aaargh!!" You sisters make pretty cute Waldo twins, too. Where the heck do you find dresses like that?
Wow, that Jack is really scary. I am impressed that he even grew a beard and a mustache for Halloween! Caroline, I went to the page for the ladybug book and you look exactly like her. You must be the real ladybug. We will have to read a story together when I come home. I would like to testify that the parrot is very very scary. especially in the dark at night when you think you are alone. Nice dancing little girl.
love you,
Grandma Jo
Kates, I already owned the dresses, 'cause I love stripes! Mom, she does look like her, doesn't she? That parrot has startled me on occasion too!
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