Parade Day!

Today was the annual Halloween Parade at the preschool. Basically, we bring the kids in their costumes, they make a lap around outside while all of the parents take a gazillion pictures, and then they go back to their class and the parents go home. That's the way it is supposed to go...




We started the day with a picture of our ECU victory gear!



Then we put our costumes on over our ECU gear. Brett is Superman and Kate is Tinkerbell, but she'll tell you that she's a butterfly.



We got to the school and took a few pictures in the hallway while we were waiting for the classrooms to open. This is Kate with her friend, Matthew. Apparently, Matthew kissed Kate's chin on at least one occassion. Brett remembers this and told Matthew this morning not to kiss Kate's chin because she has germs. Got to love big brothers!



This is another one of Kate's friends, Logan. He was Scooby-Doo! Logan's birthday party is a BIG reason why Kate no longer cries at school drop off!



This is Brett's class on their parade... nice, quiet, in a line. They are 3 and 4 year olds.



This is about 1/3 of Kate's class - chaos in full swing, teary eyes. They are mostly 2 year olds, with a few 3's. BIG difference! Brett's class last year was almost completely in tears by the end of the parade!



Pretty impressive - 9 boys, 3 girls, and 2 teachers, all sitting getting their pictures taken. What you don't see here is that Matthew's wing is apparently bothering Kate, and she went into the most pitiful pouty-lip face that you've ever seen. Then the tears slowly started, and, well, you can guess how it went from there!! It's a good thing that Kate's so light because she gets held, a LOT!



Again, Brett's class - see the difference?! I love all of the costumes!! They all look so cute!

Being the room mom for Kate's class, I helped stuff all of the goody bags, which sent Kate into a tailspin because she saw me in the hallway, but couldn't come to me in the hallway. Then, after the parade, I went back to the class to help get the kids out of costumes. She was pretty much fine with that, until I had to leave. Luckily, they were painting pumpkins after that and she got distracted :)

As I went down the hall, I saw one of Brett's teachers struggling with getting costumes into their blue bags, so I volunteered to help those kids get out of costumes too. They had some serious costumes - most of them required full wardrobe changes. Try explaining to a 3 year old why she should wear her sneakers with her play clothes and not her pretty princess shoes, especially when it's not your child! Haha!

What a fun day!!

After school and naps and all that good stuff, we carved pumpkins, but more on that later!