Halloween

 Elizabeth is dressed as Princess Merida from Disney's BRAVE.  Andrew and Michael are her bear brothers, she actually has three in the movie but didn't think I could convince James to don a bear costume.

 

 Andrew's two year old class had a sweet party.  He was so excited that I brought the snack - cupcakes and ghost string cheese.  He was very good at the pumpkin toss game.  He chose to be a monkey at school, specifically a howler monkey.

 Elizabeth has matured so much since  last year's Pumpkin Day.  She hardly needed my help and was so fast.  The parade was so fun, everyone loved her wig.

Michael had an indoor parade and party too.  He was excited that I am head room parent, but shooed me away when I tried to help with his costume.  The school prohibits taking pictures, but a great time was had by all.

 

After visiting all of the activities at the library Halloween party Andrew wrestled with this polar bear for at least twenty minutes.  He kept yelling Bear Fight!

 Elizabeth and I attended Mary Poppins together.  She was so excited to wear her new black mink cape.  Since seeing the show she has decided to be Mary Poppins and take care of her brothers.  I constantly hear her singing Just a Spoonful of Sugar.  This year she has a season subscription to the ballet, Gisele was a fabulous introduction this month.

 This year we decorated a lot of pumpkins.  Andrew and Elizabeth had a pumpkin painting playdate with lots of glitter glue.

Zoo Boo!

Michael had a skeleton costume he wore to school.  He decided it would be cool to wear for the haunted house at the zoo.

Elizabeth was so excited to pose in front of the Komodo dragons in her dragon costume but it was too cold for them.  

Superstorm Sandy postponed our trick-or-treat night.  It was a freezing November night to go trolling for candy.  The kids hopped in and out of the van.  We went with the same family this year, the children's ages 7, 6, 5, 4, 2 ,& 2 and they were so fast.  We accumulated a huge amount of candy.  

Andrew could hardly squeeze his huge bear butt into his seat.  After a long night he was content to sit in the garage and eat M&M's.

After we got home the children loved passing out treats to the older kids

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