Gracie looked bac-a-licious in her costume for school on Thursday, when they had all their Halloween festivities because school is out Friday. She was determined to go as bacon, so we got creative and made her costume out of foam sheets that we (read: Stacey) colored. Then I gave her makeup that matched the bacony goodness. She was pretty pleased with it!
Kate, inexplicably, wanted to be a banshee. Where she heard of banshees we have not yet determined, but her she is in all her ghoulish splendor, though I don't know that traditional banshees are this cheerful.
I went as Abby from "NCIS." It was really fun putting on that persona for the day! There's no pic of Greg because he went as ... Greg. He claims he goes every year as a disgruntled middle manager, but I think that doesn't count.
Emma waits for the Halloween parade to go by. She went as a zombie and we had a great time shredding old clothes, painting them with "mud" of unsweetened cocoa and water and getting them (and her) all bloodied up. It's been fun the past couple of years doing her costumes as she's moved past wanting to be cute or beautiful every year and into stuff that's more imaginative.
The zombie shuffles through the parade as parents look on in the school gym.
Gracie's classmates flat-out didn't believe her when she said she was coming as bacon. But they do now!
Em and her friend, Kai, at their class Halloween party. Kai didn't start the day with that surgical glove on his head — we gave them out as part of the "CSI" theme of their party, which also featured fingerprint identification, "body-part" (read: peeled grapes and cold spaghetti) palpation, dissecting bloody eyeballs (that tasted like chocolate cupcakes) and processing evidence (caramel apples) to be bagged and tagged in real biohazard bags. Yes, it's all about the grossness in sixth grade — and about the cool playlist I made to run during the party!
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