And Even More Halloween Fun...

I realize that this is being posted after Halloween, but it has been a busy few days around here! This post will cover the remaining activities that the kids had before the big day even arrived. I think that next year we will need to prioritize and minimize our events better!

Here are Joe and Olivia carving the "Olivia pumpkin". She was a big help for about the first 5 minutes of this, and then wandered off started playing with something else. Such is life with a 4 year old.

The final results of the carvings. Olivia and even Ethan selected their own shapes for the pumpkins' features. Ethan pointed to shapes on a piece of paper when I asked him what he would like. We do not do the fancy pumpkins at our home.

Halloween Funshop for Ethan. Funshop is sort of like a "pre-preschool", where the parents attend with the kids and interact with them at the various stations around the room. It is a wonderful resource and the facilitators put in a lot of time and effort into making each week different. Here he is with the play-doh (which, on a side note, is homemade and always smells wonderful since they make it with kool-aid packets).

Snack/storytime at Funshop. My friend Heather and I switched cameras to capture the moment for each other.

Ethan driving the boat. Instead of sand, Funshop has the kids play in a rice and bean pool. I am always finding rice in various places (namely the diaper) throughout the day after he plays in here.

OK, this picture is not Halloween themed, but Joe is so proud of Ethan's hat. An orange and blue Darth Vader hat! How perfect is that? And Ethan will actually wear it!

Here is Olivia (third from the right in the Belle costume) at her preschool's Halloween party and parade. The kids all sang and acted out about 6 Halloween songs that they had been practicing for some time. It was a really cute event.

Making their silly Halloween faces for the crowd. To the right of Olivia is a boy named Jack (in the hat with the bag). Olivia adores Jack and talks about him frequently. Jack is beyond obsessed with snakes (which is why it is funny that he dressed like Indiana Jones who is afraid of snakes), which has now made Olivia talk a lot about snakes as well. Luckily she only talks about them and does not actually want to own one.

Olivia in the "parade". The classes marched around a bit of Washington Park for the parents.