We've been waiting anxiously for Halloween. Rita has been off of school for the last two weeks for Fall inservice, so her school party was on October 17.

When we were out shopping for Halloween costumes at the beginning of October, we found a pair of gorgeous butterfly wings that Rita loved (well, I loved them ... and talked them up until she loved them). We bought the wings and then went looking for her "body". I found this outfit at Target (gasp! I intended to make something but this was a much simpler solution) that matched the wings perfectly.

This is Rita getting ready for school. In the end, she didn't wear her wings to school because they would be too heavy, bulky (and probably destroyed) for all day wear.

Luckily, it was a warm day so she could just wear a tank top under her dress. Instead of having to wear a winter coat which happened many times when I was growing up in Wisconsin!

Rita at her school in the butterfly garden.

Fast forward - this picture is taken on Friday ... Halloween at 4PM. Since I was traveling for work all week - and I wanted to participate in Rita's first Halloween pumpkin carving - we didn't get to carve our pumpkins until just before going out for Trick-or-Treating.