Entries Tagged 'halloween' ↓

We had a great time at the Halloween parade where kids march for about 4 blocks in their Halloween costumes. We were a party of 7 with the two kids and parents and Grandma Liz and Jason and Lori.

It didn’t take long for Ezri to find a friend from her dance class who was also dressed as Queen Elsa.

Elsa was definitely THE HALLOWEEN COSTUME this year. I counted 39 Elsas at the town Halloween parade.
A number of younger siblings were Olaf the snowman. I counted 8 Olafs. The Olaf behind these two Elsas is not Ivan, but the other Elsa’s little brother.

Ezri noted that there were many Elsas, but she was the only one gifted with a magical balloon wand with which to do her snow magic.

This is the woman behind the balloon art and her consort here known as “the carrier of balloon art.”

While the Great Pumpkin armed with a dracula wand tried to defeat Elsa, the vampire wand was no match for Elsa’s superior freezing powers.

Before leaving for the parade, I told Ezri that she should not twirl wildly or she would show her underwear. She nodded and said, “I better put on some leggings.” Let nothing impede the joy of a good parade twirl.

Here is Elsa with the Doctor. She said of her balloon wand, “It is shaped like a heart and I love it. Isn’t that funny?” Later when it was popped by her little brother, she did not melt or rage but noted that balloons don’t last forever.

We returned home for epic pumpkin carving, but that’s another blog post.

We went to window painting with the kids again this year. I love this downtown tradition of letting the kids decorate the windows of the downtown business for Halloween with their original paintings.

Ezri’s window features a rainbow monster, a ghost saying “boo,” a haunted house, a brain, an alien sticking its tongue out, a zombie, green grass and a blue sky.

Pumpkin decorating involved a small wooden hammer. Both my kids like banging pegs into a pumpkin. See Ezri tongue bite of concentration. It makes her look like my father.

Ezri decided to paint her pumpkin purple & pink.

Here Ezri asks if it is too rainy to Trick-or-Treat.

Our first stop has a nice, dry porch for the Princess of Light. Her preschool teachers told me that she explained yesterday that she was the Princess of Light who brings the sun. They asked me where the character is from – I do not know. Meghan who took the photo below explained that “this was the face she made right after explaining to me very sweetly that ‘a princess’s job is to give orders and everybody has to listen because she is the princess.'” This is also the stop where after being given candy, Ezri asked for a slice of cheese.

Here I think the princess is getting ready for a masquerade ball.

Here is the posse we went Trick-or-Treating with. Luckily, the weather was down to a drizzle by this point and we even saw a patch of blue sky.

The vampire and the princess did a great job going from house to house and saying their Trick or Treats and Thank yous. They were often hand-in-hand along the path. They particularly enjoyed the house with the fog machine at the door that got turned on for kids ringing the bell. Spooktastic.