Halloween (Part 2, Leo's)

I couldn't have asked for a better schedule on Friday. Ellie's party/parade was in the morning and Leo's was in the early afternoon. In hindsight I wish I'd brought Ellie to Leo's parade. She would have loved it. Leo's school is big: 500 kids. All dressed up. All. Of. Them.

Leo didn't see me at first.


Apologies for the crummy photo editing hatchet job here. Didn't want to show Leo's teacher or the other kids in the photo without permission. This is Leo's who am I supposed to be looking at? face.

Oh! Mommy's here!

Soon it was time to go inside for the party.


Now that is a dog who enjoys a cupcake. Seriously though, Leo has an almost pathological love for cupcakes. (See above. Is it a beard? Is it a cupcake?) I am talking addiction.

Leo got to skip taking the bus to after care/daycare. We picked Ellie up before 3:30 and headed home, almost three hours earlier than most days.

As a special bonus, we had a house call from Leo's teacher shortly after we got home. At the party, she had offered up the class' jack o' lantern (seen above) to us and dropped it off on her way home. Apologies for the messy house and pantsless two-year-old (I'm looking at you Ellie) Mrs. L., but it was fun having you. Leo actually shocked me--normally he hates seeing school people out of context but he grabbed Mrs. L.'s hand as she stood in the doorway and practically pulled her inside (I don't think she'd intended to come in, the poor woman had just survived a full day of teaching elementary school on the Friday before Halloween, if anything she should have been on her way to happy hour).

So it was a short, pleasant visit with Mrs. L.

Then it was on to dinner, books, bath and

bed.

Think he was tired?