Sunday, October 31, 2010

School Parties

On Friday the 29th, all three kids had their Halloween parties at school. Brandon was gone all day, so I had to brave them all on my own! Levi has been planning for quite some time to be Darth Vader for Halloween. I got him a Darth Vader costume, and set it out for him to wear that day. Well when he woke up that morning he had different plans! he said, "Mommy, I think I am going to be Spiderman instead because everyone else in my class is going to be Spiderman too" I couldn't believe it because he had been so excited to be Darth Vader! Good thing his Spiderman from last year still fit him. When we got to school I noticed that there were about 5 other little boys dressed up as Spiderman in his class. They must have all been talking about it at school =)

When we first got there, all of the kids in the school had a big parade around the soccer field. The preschoolers got to lead it, and it was so fun to see Levi walking in his costume and grinning at everyone.


After that we headed to his classroom for a fun little party. There were several centers set up for the kids to go to. I was in charge of the lollipop ghost center. Here is Levi waiting for us to get started. I didn't even comb his hair that morning because I figured he would have his mask on the whole time. Well he decided not to wear it once he got to school, so he had some serious bed head! haha



Here's his finished ghost! He loved drawing on the face all by himself.

I stayed at the ghost center the whole time, but I was able to sneak away a few times to take some pictures of Levi at the other centers. Here is an action shot of him at pumpkin bowling.



After that he made a cute foam pumpkin. Then they got to do pin the face on the pumpkin and listen to some Halloween stories. They also had some yummy treats. It went by so fast and Levi was so sad when it was time to leave. I reminded him that we still got to go to Alexis and Tori's parties later on, and that cheered him up.

Later that afternoon we headed to Alexis and Tori's school. Levi decided that he would wear his Darth Vader Costume now =)




Their school is so big, and their classrooms are on opposite ends, so I was a little nervous about making sure I spent equal time with both of them. We stopped by Tori's room first. She was all dressed in her costume and ready to start the party. She was so excited to see us, and showed Levi around her classroom, and even let him sit at her desk!



The first thing they did was make a Halloween craft. They were given a styrofoam ball and told to make whatever kind of creature they wanted. Tori decided to make a spider.

After that Tori headed over to the cookie decorating table and Levi and I headed down to see Alexis. While we were gone, Tori frosted a cookie for Levi and covered it with sprinkles. He was so excited when we saw it. While he was eating that Tori made herself a sandwich cookie.

Alexis was so happy to see us when we got to her classroom. She wanted to introduce Levi to everyone, and even talked him into sitting on her lap for a minute =)





They had all sorts of fun and creative games planned in her classroom. They had a candy corn catapult, a marshmallow catch game, bingo, stack the golf balls, and cookie decorating. It was definitely more chaotic in her classroom, lol.
Here is Alexis trying to catch a marshmallow. Shortly after this she got elbowed in the nose by another child while they were trying to catch one. I felt so bad! She was trying to be so brave as her eyes welled up with tears =( I wanted to run up and give her big hugs, but I didn't want to embarrass her so I tried to play it cool while making sure she was ok. I hate that she is growing up!






I ran back and forth between Alexis and Tori's classrooms several times, and by the end I was so tired!! I was glad that I could go and be there with them though. Levi was glad he got to tag along too!

2 comments:

Celeste said...

What a great mom you are to hit up all the parties. Looks like that had some really fun things planned.

Lynsey said...

Looks like a fun time was had by all. That is so neat that you were able to be at all the parties.