Halloween '09 celebrations

Halloween 2009: let the parties begin!

Wow, this has been an eventful week!
On Thursday, Reese and I went up to the Pi house for some trick-or-treating and fun. It was wonderful: the girls had set up cookie decorating, candy apple stations, and they were all so sweet to hand out candy from their rooms. Three of my pledge sisters were there with their kiddos (plus other alums I didn't know), and it was such fun to see them and catch up!

Reese and Nico meet Ford.


Reese exuberantly loves on Nico.


No, really, Reese, you can take those hands off my adorable face now! (some of these photos courtesy of Monique--thank you!)


Making the rounds and scoring some candy...are they not the cutest cheerleader and Sleeping Beauty you have ever seen? Also, do those horizontal stripes make me look fat?


And following Ford around...


This was excellent trick-or-treating practice--R totally knew what to do last night!


Nico and her hot mama! Must say, being at the Pi house brought back memories--but so different to be there with our little ones! It was really fun.


Nico wants to interact with her paparazzi.


On Friday, R's preschool class hosted a party for the parents. David and I had a total blast! The kids were all in costume...


They sang 5 songs for us and did some dancing.



Then we ate lunch, had story time and went outside to watch them attack the pinata. What a fun party! And so wonderful to have a little glimpse into R's day at school. They are learning so much, and she seems to be having a terrific time in the process...

Which leads us to last night, the big All Hallow's Eve itself!
Reese was Sleeping Beauty again, for about 15 minutes. Then she had a change of heart, tore off her clothes and decided she wanted to be something else.


Thank goodness we had Mary Blake's darling witch costume!


Daddy had already prepared to be SB's prince, so he stuck with it. But Greta was ready to go in her coordinating witch's costume...


Here's a family shot. I am emphasizing the Buddha belly with an aptly placed pumpkin face (thank you for creating it, Becky!)....


We had the BEST time trick-or-treating...we went over to our neighbor friend's house and met up with about 3 or 4 families...then we hit the streets of RW as a big group. It was great to move as a huge group. There were 10 kids, and the big girls took the lead with R, holding her hand and ushering her from house to house as the parents just trailed along. This, my friends, is the way to trick-or-treat! It was pretty dark and my camera is crap, so my pics didn't turn out great.
Here's the group, heading out after a pizza dinner...


Reese, joining in the haunting fun!


Did you know it's not very much fun to have gestational diabetes while all this delicious HW candy is lying around? Oh, the guilt every time it passes the lips! And the annoying need for enough self-restraint to select just one (or two) pieces of chocolate at a time...
And next up, moving houses and Thanksgiving! Not sure how much I'll be blogging (and when on earth do we have a triple posting day on the Babble?? Woot woot!), but I will check back in as the big things happen!