halloweenie in first grade

*i want blogger to stop deleting the pictures i steal off the internet!*

after a day of extreme overstimulation,

this is what every single one of them will be doing for the next

48 hours--

so glad they have the weekend to detox this year.

today was a hoot. zero learning occurred, of course, and some of the costumes almost had me wetting myself. one of my personal favorites was a rather tubby girl who always looks a little lost; her costume consisted of a bawdy blond wig that was extremely tangled and lopsided and some sort of shiny little miss muffet dress, plus a microphone. i spent many a minute throughout the day conversing with teachers and aides, trying to figure out what in the world she was. my only viable guess was a washed-up, drunken rockstar from the 70s. turns out she was hannah montana.

another boy in overalls, button-up, and red hankerchief made everyone guess what he was, and he was horrified that no one's first guess was paleontologist! pioneer, my eyeball!

i was an egyptian, because, hey, i went to egypt, i have a dress--it follows. plus, when we were at the grimgoggles for a lovely sunday dinner this week, i took a dig through their dress-up box, where i found a shiny golden head... thing... and a bendy golden snake for my arm. five-year-old grady made sure i didn't "forget the asp! it's the most important!" i thought it was a pretty basic costume, but many of my kids were lost: "what the heck is a dip-shin?" was the most common response. eventually, i figured out that i just needed to close my eyes, stand up straight, and cross my arms over my chest, and they got the picture.

the kicker today, however, was when i was sorting through the skeletons one class made. they were pretty cute little pictures made from q-tips glued to black paper. their teacher then directed my attention to one boy's masterpiece, whose skeleton was just a little different than the rest: this [mostly] 2-D creation bore a single q-tip that jutted straight up at the viewer... from between the skeleton's legs. i looked quizzically at the teacher, who just said, "apparently, 'it's a robot.'"

as if that makes any more sense...

happy halloweenie, everybody!