Last week and this week was all about report cards so I was a bit MIA from life, haha! We did manage to celebrate Halloween though!
The week before Halloween, I took the girls to my school where the PTA was hosting a Trunk or Treat! The girls wore their Cabbage Patch doll costumes and rode in the stroller, which I had turned into the Cabbage Patch doll box! The event didn't start till 6:30pm so it was on the later side for them but they hung in there until about 7:45pm, at which they lost it, haha. EVERYONE could hear the two babies crying in the hallway! Oh well :) One thing that really surprised me was the amount of people who came up and kept trying to take their picture. I politely told them "No pictures please," and most of them were okay with it but some got a little snippy with me! A few people did ask before trying to get the picture, which I did appreciate, but I was shocked that people would even try to take their picture. Taking a picture of a stranger's kid just never would occur to me.
Our PTA also asked teachers to decorate a pumpkin for a fundraiser. First grade did two pumpkins and one of our custodians did a pumpkin.
This is the pumpkin our custodian did...isn't he talented?! I wanted to win this one!
This is David from the No, David! book. We read it in the beginning of the school year and the grade has been obsessed with him since.
We also made a Creeper from Minecraft. First grade is also obsessed with Minecraft. This pumpkin won 3rd place!
The costumes! A family friend made the hat part and my mom and I made the pigtails. My mom used her machine to embroider the shirts with the Cabbage Patch logo.
The stroller! It took me awhile to make but I had so much fun doing it.
And my little Cabbage Patch dolls! You can see how tired they are, haha!
The Thursday before Halloween was our Word Parade at school. It's basically when the kids get to wear their costumes to school and have our parade for the parents. The first grade team was a set of Scrabble tiles and we spelled a message out! I think only a few parents realized it but oh well, we had fun!
My parents, Pop pop and Grammy, came up to visit the girls on Halloween. They brought a treat bag for each girl, filled with Puffs, Yogurt Melts, and a toy! Next year, we will have even more fun with the treats!
After the girls got dressed, we walked down to the neighborhood across the street to say hi to one of my co-workers and her family. Her granddaughter lives with them and happens to be one of my students! She was so excited that we came to visit and they ooo'ed and ahh'ed over the girls and their costumes.
After visiting, we went back to our house to set up for the
trick-or-treaters. We always sit outside to hand out candy since the
constant ringing of the doorbell would drive Riley nuts. Growing up I
never really lived in a neighborhood so we would always drive to
neighborhoods to trick-or-treat, meaning my parents never got to hand
out candy. My mom was pretty excited to try it for once! We set up
with our TEN pounds of candy (I'm always afraid of running out! Hasn't
happened yet) and my non-candy treats, which were glow sticks! This
year I wanted to participate in the Teal Pumpkin Project, where you
paint a pumpkin teal and sit it out so parents who have kids with food
allergies know that there are non-food treats at the house. We played
with the girls and handed out candy to our visitors. I was a little
disappointed because we only had about 20-30 kids come, not a big crowd
at all. And each one took only one or two pieces of candy! I was
trying to shove more into their bags but we ended up with a lot
leftover, which went to Ben's work. My mom said it wasn't as much fun
as she thought it would be.
Natalie and Grammy
Noelle and Pop Pop (I think Noelle was about to sneeze)
Even Riley got a special Halloween treat!
The next day we had a little play-date with my mom, my cousin, and my cousin's baby. He's three months younger than the girls. They played together and he kept staring at the two of them, looking back and forth like he was confused why there were two! It was really cute and we kept saying how Christmas is really going to be fun this year.
Natalie, Mitch, and Noelle
All in all, we had a fun first Halloween with the girls! I already can't wait till next year when we will get to actually take them trick-or-treating! We saw someone towing a toddler in a wagon...that sounds perfect to me! Hope you had a great Halloween too!
