Halloween 2015 in Florida

Halloween weekend started with the preschool costume parade at Liam and Ellie's school. This year Liam thought of a few options for his costume. At one point he wanted to be a stove (yes, like the cooking kind), then he changed it to a superhero and finally settled on being a Padawan (a young Jedi Knight from Star Wars). When we asked Ellie on the other hand, she was consistent. She wanted to be a fairy despite the many options we offered. However, she was very clear that she did NOT want to wear a skirt (because many of the fairy costumes had a tutu-like skirt and she does not care for the fluff....which makes me happy). She also didn't care for the fairy dress so at the end she really just wanted wings and a wand and she was perfect. Gavin opted to be Ezra from the Star Wars Rebels show.

Before leaving for school. 

At the parade, she wanted me to walk with her. The "audience" kinda freaked out all the 2 year-olds. 

Our little Jedi 

See the smirk. He was happy someone called him a "Jedi"

 Liam's class sang a short song about a spider. Liam did great despite having many technical difficulties with his spider (the cord broke off, the spider ended up away from him...).

After school, we headed to Florida for the weekend to trick or treat with the grandparents. We were able to keep the tradition of trick or treating at Publix before going out through the neighborhood. We went to two different Publix stores and the first one was so much better. They did everything we expected and had the kids favorite treat, "popcorn hands" (a deli glove filled with popcorn and candy corn as the "nails").

After Publix, the party was at Uncle John and Titi Maribel's house this year. The kids all got together and worked on a Halloween day performance which was awesome.
The neighborhood was great to trick or treat at with lots of people outside. It reminded me a lot of our old FL neighborhood.

Ellie in her limo ride for the evening. 

  Joy all around.

 
We say it every time but this was a great family weekend. It was great for the kids to spend time with their cousin. I know Ellie loved playing in Isa's room. We had to beg her to go trick or treating and finally she conceded but with a condition. She said, "I am only going to THREE houses". She loved playing with Isa's baby dolls and doll house. It's so funny for us to watch her in this all-girl environment and how she just does what you expect a little girl to do even though she doesn't play like that at home. It's fascinating.

Thank you to my mom for the yummy dinner food and for Uncle John and Titi Maribel for inviting us over to their house. We had so much fun!!!