Happy Halloween!

This Halloween, Eleanor really wanted to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast (the "new" one with Emma Watson) but didn't want a fancy dress up dress - she wanted to wear her Belle dress. This girl has worn this outfit/hairstyle to school at least once a week since she started school and once a week in the summer before that (we have an only once a week for this outfit rule) so I was a bit worried it would come to Halloween and she wouldn't feel like it was special enough since she wears it all the time. However, Halloween came and she was perfectly happy and excited to wear this outfit and be Belle in her own way. Jane wore the same ghost costume Eleanor wore two years ago and absolutely loved it. She also carried a little ghost that I made the girls a couple weeks ago to play with around with her and showed her little ghost to everyone who would look at it.

We had two opportunities to dress up this year. The first was the Saturday before Halloween - we got tickets to trick-or-treating in Colonial Williamsburg. This year happened a bit earlier in the day than last year, but the girls had a blast and had to say "Liberty" instead of "trick-or-treat" for candy.

We also carved our pumpkin over the weekend, which Eleanor wanted to design this year. I think we stayed pretty true to her design!

Then we dressed up for actual Halloween. Since it was on a Tuesday, Eleanor had a Halloween parade that morning at school and then a Harvest Party afterward. The Halloween parade was adorable - they all walked around the drop-off circle a couple of times waving at everyone. Jane tried to jump in a couple of times, poor thing :)

Eleanor stayed in her costume throughout the entire day until trick-or-treating that night. Some of our neighbors and friends got together for pizza before heading around the block for candy.

The girls really enjoyed Halloween this year. Eleanor was running ahead the entire time with the older girls and Jane brought up the rear with some of the younger ones. She did her best though to try to keep up!

Happy Halloween!