Halloween at School

Halloween was a big deal this year!  Joseph was old enough to go Trick or Treating in our neighborhood so we started hunting for a costume early enough to allow for any set backs.  

Ha...famous last words.   

Joseph has been wanting to be a tiger since an event this summer where he had his face painted like one.  But oddly enough, no one sells tiger costumes!  I hit store after store and nary a tiger was found.  I took my search online and only ebay came through, so some place sold tigers at one point!  I ordered one and even though the the size was for his age, it was so small I couldn't even come up with some way to rig it to fit.  

I dragged my feet all the way to two different fabric stores, determined (as you can well tell) to make my baby his first choice Halloween costume.  I only found one suitable (suitable = no sequins or glitter and not silk) choice of material and it was ug-ly.  I dragged my feet back home and Josh and I fomed a game plan  to tell Joseph he had to pick another costume.  We were fully prepared for WWIII since the little guy has been dreaming about this since July.  When we told him, he looked at us for a minute kinda puzzled, then said "ok".  

What?!  No flopping around on the floor?  No crying and pouting?  I offered to buy him tiger ears and a tail and a "cool" set of orange sweats for a really-really-really home made style costume, or take him shopping for a second runner up.  He voted for hitting the stores.   

   

When we came across the winner, a fabulously brave policeman, there were swords right next to it.  Alas, our Brave Policeman has handcuffs, a shiny badge, and a wields a sword.  Don't mess with him, he'll get medieval on you.

(And how CUTE is the pumpkin patch on the wall in his class room.  We love his pre-school! The owner is super creative and constructed a HUGE (fiberglass or drywall?) 3-D tree in the corner of his room which they decorated with bats for this time of the year.)

 A few of Joseph's buds let me snap some shots of them all dressed up.

It was really really hard.

Everyone was looking everywhere and being crazy and I think I should win an award for this one by the way.

This is more par for the course - I think it's a rule among pre-schoolers that for every five pictures, in only one can they all being looking at the camera.  It's a small way they can maintain a little control over their parents.

Looks like Captain Jack Sparrow found himself a pearl necklace treasure!

I made the kids Halloween shaped cookies and took icing for everyone to decorate one.  But I had the easy part of that project because I dropped them off his teacher's hands and took off.  She was the one who had to coordinate the execution of the decorating!

I think this is just a precursor to the fun weekend ahead!