Halloween Highlights {2012}

{Emily's Fall Party at School}

i got to spend the day in emily's classroom on the day she had her "fall party".  to make the day even more special, miss lori chose her to be the "class leader" that day.  she was beyond proud to demonstrate her leadership skills to me!  i loved watching her in her school environment... she is happy, social, kind to her friends, AND obedient!

her school brings a "pumpkin patch" to them!  after playing games, they got to go outside (in the VERY windy Kansas wind) and pick their own pumpkin.  they couldn't wait!

we were responsible for creating the treat bags for the party.  emily helped me do them and she was SO excited to get to hand them out to her school friends!

to top off the end of a very fun day, noah agreed to read a pumpkin story to emily's class.  he was one of miss lori's students 3 years ago and because he had the day off from school, he joined me in her classroom.  given his very SHY personality and lack of desire to EVER read out loud, i was shocked when he told miss lori that he would, in fact, read a story to the kids! he did so well and i was so proud of him.  and emily was proud of him too... her smile shows her pride that HER brother was the cool "big kid" who read to her friends :)

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{Noah's 2nd Grade School Party}

so i'm a newbie to the "room mother" job!  even though the toilet-paper wrapped capri sun's might have been slightly unnecessary, my first class party as an official "room mother" went great!  we played games, ate "monster munch", and got really messy during the party highlight... MAKING SLIME!

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{Pumpkin Carving}
in keeping with tradition, we once again utilized the time and talent of our resident pumpkin carver... PaPa!  and in keeping with tradition, PaPa did all the messy and hard work!  the kids DID design their own faces and added some "accessories" to their jack-o-lantern courtesy of a black sharpie marker!  my favorite part: the glasses noah drew and the "smiling spiders" emily drew.  oh, and the fact that molly thought she drew something!

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{Trick-or-Treating}

clearly, the highlight of halloween for me was the fact that we had another costume theme!  after his reluctance to wear a costume at all last year, i was genuinely shocked when noah decided that he wanted to be a shark!  and since emily had already circled the gorgeous mermaid costume in the costume catalog that arrived in AUGUST, our theme of "under the sea" was an easy one! 

the kids really had fun with their theme too! molly loved to act like she was swimming and noah enjoyed acting out the job description of a shark: that of torturing the smaller fish!

 

being the "big kid" that he is, noah ended up running ahead of the rest of his sibling "fish" as he trick-or-treated with 2 of his friends.  

molly was a candy collecting pro this year.  her "tic-teet" request was precious and she diligently followed it up with a "tan tu" as she took her candy and walked "big girl" style to the next house!

surprisingly, the kids tired fairly quickly and were equally excited to come home and hand out candy to the other kids!

{my halloween favorites}

the theme and the fact that noah wanted to dress up at all!

molly's "fin" on the back of her costume.

the gorgeous weather.

molly's imitation of a fish swimming.

emily's pretty hair and her sparkled lips.

the fun that the kids had TOGETHER... all 4 of them!

the way abby looked when she crawled in her costume.

this picture.

the miracle of a picture with ALL 4 kids {mostly} looking at the camera and {mostly} smiling!

it was a HAPPY HALLOWEEN indeed!