Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Halloween 2017: The Year of the Caterpillar & Butterfly

We started Halloween celebrations with a rockin’ third grade class party, complete with a race to complete mummy mannequins.

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And then my beautiful butterfly emerged after school, ready to conquer the neighborhood as soon as the clock struck 4:45.

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Little sister caterpillar was cooperative with her costume and wanted to copy everything that her sister did. (HG wants me to clarify that she chose her costume first and that I picked Cressey’s to match.)

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We went to several houses in our neighborhood before John, HG, and I left Cress at home with Spiffer and GD to meet up with HG’s SAA friends. Our first stop was Ms. Marcy’s house. She had candy for HG and a little pillow for Cress.

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Not sure what’s the funniest about this pic…Marcy hiding in the window, the fact that Cress was throwing her pillow, or the cute little toddler-as-a-caterpillar walk.

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Onward! Now Cress is getting the hang of this!

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Wait a minute, she’s easily distracted.

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But now she’s got the hang of ‘knock knock.’ Never mastered ‘trick or treat,’ but she loved saying and then doing ‘knock knock.’

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One of our neighbors insisted she have a sucker, and since she soon ate all the paper off of it, I gave it to her. And then handed her over to my parents and left. They weren’t too excited about that. (For the record, I did pry it out of her sticky hands before I left.)

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The Garibaldis’ annual trick or treat gathering is always a huge hit!

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At the end of the night with a very tired (and cold) little girl

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