Everything worked out perfectly yesterday.  I had taken the day off for all the festivities, but the boys ended up having conflicting times for their school parades, so for the first time Stuart and I had to divide and conquer.  Since the ninjas costumes are difficulty to get on and off, we convinced the boys to choose something else for school.  Logan finally agreed to wear the police outfit and Connor changed his mind to be a doctor on the last day.   For Halloween day, initially there was a 50/50 chance of rain in the morning which would lead to cancelling the parades; fortunately everything was on schedule. Stuart and Logan took off to his school, and I accompanied Connor to his.  According Stuart’s text, Logan’s parade initiated as planned at 9am and Logan went with the flow and seemed to have fun.  I hung out at Connor’s until the parade started at 9:30am.  All the cute characters lined up outside their classroom and waited patiently for their turn.  Connor wanted me to go over to give him a hand squeeze twice, then the rest of the time he was intrigued with the event.  All the kids went on a walk around the school and they were all proud in their costumes.  After the parade, three classes of preschool children entered a classroom for a skit by the teachers.  The kids all sat on the rug nicely and sang with the teachers initially too.  Then they enjoyed a short skit about a witch and the children all paid close attention.  After the show, the parents were dismissed and I threw Connor a kiss before I left.

    I immediately went to Logan’s school for his classroom party.  I had signed up to be a helper only for the second half but I was able to show up for the entire one.  The children were still at recess, so the other helpers and I were trying to set things up.  The party was for an hour and a half and in which the kids would divide into three groups to rotate through the three activities, arts and crafts, Bingo and “hot pumpkin”.  One of the moms and I were assigned to be in charge of the Bingo.  When Logan and the whole class came back from recess, Logan waved to me and later gave me a hug.  After the teacher informed the kids of the rotations, the party began.  Logan wanted to start with my group but I directed him to stay with his assigned group to make a skeleton with Q-tips.  The other mom and I were busy at Bingo and we had to talk loudly so our 10 kids could hear us well in the loud classroom.  I went around the kids to ensure that they were marking correctly and cheering them on.  The kids were excited and we made sure all the kids got Bingo at the end to get a little prize.  Logan and the 2nd group came to us; we proceeded to do the same with them and they had fun.  Then Logan moved onto “Hot Pumpkin”.  I looked at him briefly initially and he seemed to be engaged.  Later on he came over to give me a hug and that when he told me that he was out.  After the three group rotations, the party was coming to an end.  The children returned to their seats and we helped the boys out of their costumes while the teachers took the girls to another room to change.  We said goodbyes and the helpers were dismissed.

     I finally returned home around lunch time.  I was tired for all the instruction and cheering.  But I was happy that the timing worked well that I could be there for both boys at their school events.