All in a Weekend, Whew!

Our weekend started early on Friday morning. We woke up at the crack of dawn, before dawn actually, to dress the Spider Web Witch with costume, face paint and fingernails to boot, get Sleeping Beauty into her gown for school, and to take their Daddy to the airport shuttle. By 7:45, Daddy was on his way to LAX, and the girls and I were off to Madeline's elementary school for Halloween parade #1.
At Madeline's school, we ran into another princess, Alexis, and Sophie's preschool teacher from last year. The weekend was off to a great start!

At 8:30, Sophie and I headed to preschool for Halloween parade #2 and a little performance of sweet Halloween and Fall songs.

In the afternoon, I attended Madeline's parent conference, which I was very pleased with, and then picked up Sophie early from school. She went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch last week, and she brought home a fourth pumpkin! We made pumpkin bread while Madeline attended a Halloween party at her after school program.

On Saturday, we continued to cram every ounce of Halloween fun into our weekend and met up with Jessie and family for some trick-or-treating at the LA Zoo. Notice our costume change: Sophie went with Cinderella, last year's costume, and Madeline went with Sleeping Beauty. I definitely bought Sophie the wrong size.

The princess and the frog:

You'll never guess who we ran into!!!! Cinderella herself! What a surprise!

My girls schooled the Malisch boys on how to consume pixie sticks. Aunt Jessie has completely slacked in that department. Emmet is obviously amazed at my girls' skills. Take note, cousins, take note.

On Sunday, we decided we just had not had enough sugar and/or excitement, so we headed off to a Halloween party where Madeline wrapped Sarah Jane up as a mummy, we ate cake and ice cream, and pounced on the pinata contents because, as you know, Halloween is all about the candy!

Last, but not least, we rounded out our weekend with some real door-to-door trick-or-treating with our good friend, Milo. Sophie went back to her Sleeping Beauty costume, I made a lovely bustle for her, and Madeline went back to her scary witch costume. We have candy coming out our ears, and we have some really lovely memories too.

Happy Halloween everyone! And Daddy, we are so happy to have you home. We had fun, but we sure missed you!