Halloween Parades

Sadly, on Saturday, 10/24, Hansel's paternal grandmother passed away. She lived a long life surrounded by her loving children. Hansel flew out to Toronto Friday morning to attend the service.

On that Friday, both Maile and Beck's schools had costume parades. Maile's was going to start at 8:30, and Beck had to get to school no later than 9:15. But then, I had also volunteered to help bake cookies for Beck's school and was asked to try and drop them off as close to 9:00 as possible. I knew that wasn't going to happen; I was hoping to get there before 9:15.

We took the below photo of Maile before Hansel left. It looks like it's night time but it's actually 6:50a (before the time change).

Beck, Mathis, and I stayed long enough to see Maile's class parade around and then bolted for our car. Beck's school has a tiny parking lot that is always full, so we had to park on the street. When I dropped off the cookies just before 9:15, I was relieved to see that the other cookies hadn't been distributed yet, so we weren't late.

Beck already had the train conductor costume. We had gotten it for him for his birthday. Hansel made the train to go with his costume, which Beck helped decorate. Not many kids had home-made elements to their costumes. So the teachers were impressed.

Not sure what Beck's classmate is looking at. As far as I know, he didn't have any candy stashed in there.

After the parade, some of us parents in Beck's class helped set up an art project for decorating pumpkins and then set up the potluck. I had let Mathis hang out on their circle time rug. Normally, he's cooped up in his carseat.