Waiting for the train.
My sweet butterflies.
She has no idea what is going to happen but she's ready!
A few missing from the group shot. Didn't get a better group shot later.
Right in the middle of the chaos and quite happy to be there.
Ready for the symphony.
Hard to imagine four little cuties making such a mess isn't it?!
I love this picture of Fei.
Lili's grade 4 class. They got to have a party after the parade.
Jia was so excited to get going, she was yelling 'lets go!'.
Lili's classmate Chloe who lives down the road from us was dressed as a butterfly too, so it was great for the girls to do a few houses together.
Phew.
What a weekend. Friday night, dinner and the spooky train with friends. We went last year, this year was similar. Kids enjoyed it and want to go again next year. Jia was wide eyed but went along with everything. She's such a trooper. Saturday we met as a group and trick-or-treated in old town. 11 kids in our group. Pure chaos. Total fun. Lili held Jia's hand for over an hour and took her in and out of every store. Major praise to Lili for doing that. Then we had a group lunch and five families went onto see the symphony. Lili slept through the whole thing. Fei slept through the second half. Eric and I were too busy keeping Jia quiet to sleep. It was ok. Not our thing. Ended the day with a play at our house. Lili and Fei went to Haley and Hanna's for a sleepover so it was just Eric and I with Jia. Almost a half date except that she chose Sat. as the night she would finally sleep with us! She kept waking up so we brought her into our room and for the first time since we've been home she slept through the night in our bed. Huge deal in the attachment realm. Sunday Penny brought the girls back and they stayed for lunch then the big girls and I whipped to town to see Puss-n-Boots. LOVED it. Totally hillarious. Disappointed that yet again in a kids movie, there were orphans and an orphanage. Arg. Monday was my flex day and I got to see the kids school parade. I grinned through the whole thing. Jia got to go around in the parade with both of her sisters. Amazes me how brave she is about stuff like that. If her girls are doing it, she'd doing it. Then we ended the festivities last night with some trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. Did the same route as normal. It took twice as long with Jia there, there were more blacked out houses than normal and they still managed to bring home twice the loot. Jia walked the whole way. She said trick-or-treat and thankyou at each house. Seriously WAY TOO CUTE. Could explain the increase in candy!
