The teachers were really surprised to see how many parents showed up to chaperone... I heard that last year only about ten parents showed up so the teachers were happy to see so many parents wanted to be part of this Halloween event...
First teachers checked to see who is at school... I think Madison is helping out Ms. Michelle by pointing at the girl that she called before she called Madison so she is a bit distracted in the video...
Then all the children got paired up and we are ready to walk to the manor! Madison was paired up with Shi-ann... I think I mentioned before but Montessori classes don't believe in separating children by ages so that's why Shi-ann looks a lot older... Madison wanted to bring Mickey with her since she is a Minnie Mouse:-) just that day...
As the songs continued Buzz apparently gets jealous of Minnie Mouse's abilities and tries to squeeze her out...grrr...Buzz stay on your side...and those are not the authorized hand movements!!!
We started with a group photo...so hard to get six 3-5 year olds to all stand still and look the same way at the same time, but these are close...
The first stop was our diagonal neighbor's house...she was outside
placing her paper lantern decorations and was surprised to see us so
early...there were a couple other groups out when we started, but we
pretty much did open up the neighborhood...but the kids were really
cute, at one house when the owner said, "aren't you guys a little early",
the kids said, "we have to go to Bible Class..." way to evangelize!
Our second house was quite into the Holiday Spirit as well...she dressed as a pirate and her yard was well decorated. She sat on her porch strumming on a eukalale type instrument...unfortunately she was unaware it was Halloween...just kidding :-)
Madison was a little timid at first...she was constantly the last one to get the candy at the doors and then out of the blue got all upset because she was always being beat to the door by the Karate Kid and wasn't getting to knock and say trick-or-treat...in hindsight I guess it is understandable as last year she and the Fireman she went with always went to the door together...but in the moment I was not pleased with the mini-tantrum...it almost caused an early end to our Halloween Night...
But Jasmine came to the rescue, and the other parents attempted to slow down the Karate Kid and for a few houses the kids took turns being the one who could knock on the door...
In the end, it couldn't have worked out much better for a Wednesday Night Halloween...the kids got a pretty good haul for their hour and a half of candy grabbing and we had a really good time going trick-or treating as a group...
As we left for Bible the streets were alive with ghouls and goblins...we left a bucket out with the sign to "Please Take One," but even if the sign was followed (fat chance) the bucket was still empty upon our return and Madison sprang into action passing out candy until about 8:45 when the last high school age students called it a night...
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