About an hour after I arrived home with Sophia from her morning Halloween celebration, it was time to leave to head up to Samantha's school to partake in her Halloween parade and party. It was pouring rain (and starting to snow!) and parking was challenging, but I made it in just enough time to help her slip into her Wicked Witch costume. As much as she wanted to have her face painted green, I assured her that we would do that in the evening. It would be just way too messy for school.
Posing in her classroom before the parade:
Samantha with a few of her friends (and one little sister):
To keep the kids occupied until it was time to line up for the parade, one of the mothers read a couple of Halloween stories. Obviously, they were very captivating.
I met Steve, Sophia and Jack down in the gym to watch the parade. (Steve drove separately so that he could leave with the younger kids after the parade and get them home for naps. I stayed to help with Sam's classroom party).
Sam's class had an abbreviated Science class right after the parade, which gave us time to get the classroom ready for the party -- food, crafts and games. Once the children arrived back in the room, the fun began!
There were plenty of games (lots of candy to be won for prizes), and I was in charge of supervising the ring toss game. For that reason, I didn't get a lot of pictures, but I know that Sam had loads of fun moving from one station to the next. We ended with a craft -- which I insisted on finishing at home. Sam was fine with that idea and understood that it meant that we could leave a few minutes early and beat the after-school traffic jam. Also, I had many things to prepare before our evening guests arrived at our house to celebrate the holiday!
When we arrived home, Sophia and Jack were still sleeping so Samantha needed to be relatively quiet. Steve set her up down in the basement with a show on TV and a pillow/blanket. Within minutes, she was sound asleep ...
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