Costumes Day

This is always such a great week for dressing up, but on top of everything, today is the 50th day of school.  So for Chestatee Elementary, it's "Fifties Day," which is somewhat ironic considering we just had Madison dress up for the fifties with our "Back to the Future" party, which of course features some folks from 1955.  The difference in the costume above is the pair of glasses.  Madison was quite excited to give these a try.  Keep in mind there are no lenses in there - they're just purely decorative.

After school, it was time for ballet practice, and so long as kids could dance in their costumes, they were welcome to wear them.

Madison was wondering how Cinderella here could dance in that costume, but we told her not to worry about it.  Seriously, it was cute to see all the ballerinas show up in their costumes, and Madison was quite excited to be a cat.  Someone said she looked like Catwoman, at which point Madison became indignant.  After all, she's not carrying a whip around.

Daddy snapped a few pictures before class, before they got started.  And this is somewhat how they'll look on Wednesday, when they're invited to return in costumes again for practice.  Although next time, their instructor will be wearing a costume as well - we hear it is a pumpkin costume!

The rain is coming down again, and so is the temperature.  This system is one that we're all very concerned about, as it coincides with Fall Festival on Wednesday night, and we're not quite sure if the weather will pass by that point, or if we'll have to do everything inside.  We'd much rather do things outside, but that decision is not up to us at the moment.  We'll see how it turns out.

Either way, Madison got to experience Fall Festival at Gwinnett yesterday, and it's all good for her this week.  The weather looks okay for Saturday and trick-or-treating, and we even might go somewhere familiar to Daddy this upcoming Friday night.  That's a teaser there.

It's cold and rainy, and windy too.  Leaves and debris litter the roads, and the soaking rain continues to fall.  Tonight, Mommy and Daddy watched an old episode of Cirque du Soleil's "Solstrum," one where there's a visit to an old haunted house.  It was fun to watch that show again - we remember watching it last when Mommy was recovering from her sickness in 2006.  And of course, we were watching the multitude of extra features on that new "Back to the Future" Daddy got for his birthday.  It's totally sweet, easily the ultimate collection of the movies, and all the animated television series as well.  Lots of fun.

There was piano, and there was homework too.  Madison raced through these, because tonight we were also watching this year's "Boo-to-You" parade on the big television.  That's become somewhat of a tradition.  If we can't watch these parades live, it's fun to watch them online.

We read from our Bible about King Cyrus tonight, which is an odd thing for a children's Bible.  Still, it is in there, and one of the most fascinating things about his life is that he was chosen by name over a hundred and fifty years before he was alive.  He was not a Jew, and yet here he is doing so much for them, including getting them Jerusalem back.  And just as in today, there were plenty of folks not happy about that.

We also read from this "Descendants" prequel book again, which Madison is enjoying.  It's a monster book though, one that will take a few weeks to get through.  Daddy might have to read two chapters a night, rather than just the traditional one.  Madison won't mind a bit though - she likes all things related to this movie.

So the wind is howling and the cold rain still pours.  But it's been a most wonderful October, despite whatever happens this week with the weather.  And we're very thankful for that.