Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Or as Oliver’s favorite song of this Halloween season goes – “Ding Dong the Witch is dead.  Which old which?  The wicked witch. Ding dong the wicked witch is dead.”

As I mentioned Bella had a witch’s costume for this year, and I was trying to think how we could incorporate the whole family theme based from that.  I came up with the idea of having the house fall on Bella, and she would be one of the wicked witch’s from “The Wizard of Oz”.

Jesse made her a cardboard house.

I painted and decorated it.

We got quite a few compliments as we went along on Bella’s costume parade at school.  And a surprising number of people would say….”Oh look it’s Bella”, as we went by.  As long as we were moving Bella had her head up and was talking away in her costume.

Bella’s Kindergarten Class all dressed up.

After participating in Bella’s costume parade I had to quickly drive to Oliver’s school to see him participate in his costume parade.

Oliver got to choose between the lion, scarecrow, tin man and flying monkey.  I do believe he picked the one with the most pieces.

Later that evening we headed out to go trick-or-treating.  Both kids did great.  Oliver loved running from house to house.  Most times he would say Trick or Treat and then Thank You.  Bella had a button to push and you could hear “Trick or Treat” over and over again as she pushed it.  Unfortunately almost all the houses have steps, so she only went up to a few doors.  Oliver was happy to give her all his candy, so he could go get more!

Flying Monkey’s have to fly!

We had our costume party this weekend.  I went with the wicked witch, since it just meant making a black dress that could be worn for other occasions.  I owned everything else already, except for the green face paint.  I even bought two different ones and both were much too dark….oh well.

Jesse had a last minute decision to change from being a tornado to the Wizard of Oz himself.  He choose the door keeper costume, which I then had to quickly make in the span of 2 days.

And here are the pictures from the party itself.

It was a small gathering for our party, but that enabled us to play games.

We did a spin off of the awkward family photo game…Halloween addition using pictures like these:

Hope everyone had a great Holiday, I know our family did.