Happy Halloween!

Halloween is always a fun holiday for the little ones. Anna and Jenny had been excited about this for a while. Choosing a costume is not quite easy for them. Anna always wants to be a cowgirl - that is her favorite choice. Jenny wants to dress up and to be pretty. However this year the weather was not cooperating so dressing up in pretty dress is not an easy task when the outside temperature is in its 30s and very windy. So last weekend, I sat down with the girls. We went through many possible choices. Anna liked one of the cape I made many years ago for Joshua for one of the star war characters (Darth Sedious). She even had the lightsaber for it, but in the end, she gave up that idea because she was afraid that others may laugh at her because that is a boy character. She did not want to be a princess. We browse through some other possible halloween costume ideas and crossed a picture of Hermoine from Harry Potter. Instantly, Anna fell in love with it. We can still use the same cape, we got a tie from Daddy and one of the white shirt from me. With her dark brown long hair, she looked just like Hermoine. She was all set!
Jenny picked her costume based on how the hair looks like. She loved any costume that requires putting her hair up. She debated between Princess Leia from Star War and Pipi Longstocking. When I braided her hair with black pipecleaners and stick it up, she loved it. So there she was, Pipi Longstocking!
Eleanor and Evelyn Timmerman came over and went tick-o-treat with us. It was cold, but the girls dressed relatively warm. After going around our neighborhood, Bert had prepared nice hot chocolate milk for everyone.
Joshua did not dress up, but his friends did. Three of the girls dressed up as Ninjas. Instead of collecting candies in the cold. They went out just got enough candies for their sweet teeth and came back in and played a board game (War on Terrior!) together.
Toby had his party in his residence hall. He dressed up as someone with identity crisis by sticking more than dozen different name tags on his jacket!







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