Yesterday afteroon, Pressley and I picked Evan up from karate as we do every Friday afternoon. Only yesterday, instead of going straight home, we went to daddy's office for trick or treating. Evan had worn his karate Gi all day at school. The children had been invited to dress like their favorite book character at school on Friday. I was all, Evan likes Kung Fu Panda. We even have a Kung Fu Panda book. And, Evan has karate on Friday. Hey, Evan... Do you want to go to school dressed like Kung Fu Panda on Friday? You can wear your Gi ALL day. And he went for it. Easiest book character costume ever. A little lazy, yes. Mother of the year award, no. (I will have you know, though, that none of the other moms exactly went all out either. If I actually had gone to Michael's-as I contemplated-to get felt to make panda ears and face paint to make a panda spot around his eye, he would have been remarkably over-dressed. Whew! Glad we dodged that bullet!)
So, we headed on over to Kilpatrick. Evan still had on his Gi, but I had the teenage mutant ninja turtle costume in the bag just in case. He decided he wanted to be "karate guy" which turned into "ninja karate guy" because he did indeed want to wear his ninja swords that I bought to wear with the ninja turtle costume. Pressley agreed reluctantly to wear the Ariel costume she insisted on having but then decided she didn't like because it was itchy. We remedied the itchiness by putting her j'nastics leotard under it. (Though tonight, we'll also need to put some leggings under there since the sequins on the skirt rubbed a rash on the tops of her thighs.)
After all was said and done, they had a delightful time. They got more bang for their buck this year than ever before. We covered about 5 floors, which I'm thinking is a record for us. They racked up on candy, charmed and delighted some attorneys, paralegals and secretaries, took in some spooky displays (e.g., a "haunted office" and a pretty impressive set-up created by the ladies in word processing) and then were thrilled to find that the conference room that had the post-trick-or-treating snacks and drinks was also showing a scooby doo halloween special on two giant projector tv screens. The perfect end to the perfect trick or treating experience. Given today's forcast for rain, rain, and more rain, that might be the best we can do. I predict that Pressley will last exactly 90 seconds trick or treating in the rain.
Here are the little munchkins before they got started:
Here they are posing with a Cinderella we met along the way. The two princesses were very impressed with each other's costumes. It was quite the mutual admiration society....
This bowl of candy had a skeletal hand that clasped down over the candy triggered by a motion sensor. Pressley liked to taunt it. Also note the giant spider on the wall that dropped down when it sensed motion and had red beady eyes that lit up. Our Lil' P from last year's Halloween would have run screaming away in terror.
Finally, a shot of the fam in the KS lobby on our way out after a fun-filled afternoon.
There are more pictures in the October 2009 album. Stay tuned for a photo recap of tonight's rainy adventure.
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