Happy Halloween!

If I am remembering correctly, I think Halloween was a one-day holiday when I was a kid. Not so these days. We tried to limit the activities to the week of, but it seems like the "trick-or-treating" activities started around Columbus Day. Gage chose to be Darth Vader this year (no surprise!!) except for at the library storytime he decided to wear his Indian costume. So when the librarian asked all of the kids to tell her what their Halloween costumes were, he insisted that he was Darth Vader! Poor lady either thinks he has a great imagination or his parents won't buy him a costume! Gage and his friend Olivia also went to a program at OxBow EcoCenter, where they learned about "Creepy-Crawlies" and made puppets and sang and danced to songs about bugs.

Last but not least, We won tickets to a Halloween Party at Heathcote Botanical Garden. Which I was very happy about, because there isn't any trick or treating going on in our neighborhood! We had a great time, one of the local high school drama clubs sponsored it and ran the games for the kids. They also turned the old pioneer house at the garden into a haunted house complete with zombies. Much too scary for Gage (and me) so we stayed out of that area. They did a terrific job of it though!