On the day before Halloween, Einar's preschool had a Halloween Parade for the kids first thing in the morning. The two classes lined up and then paraded around the courtyard three times so that we could all get some good pictures. Einar might look like he is just a plain simple brown horse, but he went as a "Circle of Life Pony." Those are his words. I think he wanted to be a horse and then started reading the Lion King book a bit and just incorporated them together. He did mention that he wanted to be Mufasa about two days prior to Halloween, but thankfully embraced his horse costume. Notice he's about a head taller than the princess behind him.
This year I finally had some help with pumpkin carving. He wasn't into scraping out the insides and he was a bit too eager to wield a knife, but he did stick around with me at the table to help with input on the final product. We went for the "make it look like Soren" design. Two teeth on top, two teeth on the bottom and some sizable ears completed the look. Instead of fire this year, I went with the glowstick option.
Halloween Frenzy.
The crew before heading out for trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. Einar is at the far left and Soren the Sock Monkey is being held by Balto the Wolf Girl.
Little sock monkey got to ride with dad all night. Notice that Jared is wearing short sleeves. It was in the low 70's that night and our Circle of Life Pony practically had heat stroke by the time we'd finished two streets!There hasn't been much to report on this week and regrettably I've been living in the house of sick and haven't felt much like blogging. Einar came down with a crud on Sunday night and has been kept out of school all week and Soren caught it as well. Soren hasn't been as sick as Einar, but he has been oozing snot all week. Yuck, see it isn't even fun to read about!
