Book Character Parade

Another first for Ella - she has been a spectator for years, but she finally got to participate in Kolter's Book Character Parade (a.k.a. a fun way to allow kids to wear costumes to school, but make it educational since they are supposed to be dressed up as a character in their favorite book - good thing you can find a book about nearly anything these days!)

 Ella picked the peacock costume first and then we found a great book about a peacock that she loves to read (thank you Amazon)

"Technically" Addison was not the same Harry Potter as she was last year.  This year she carried book 7 and she had finished reading the series. Last year she was just getting started with the series.  Completely different apparently.  She chose an angel costume for Halloween and our only angel books were packed up with Christmas decorations, so I got a cute book about kids behaving in school and earning their halos, it was called Third Grade Angels.  Apparently I should have consulted with her first because the cover of the book was a school play ground and it was about kids, not real angels, so it was not acceptable for the book character parade (according to Addy, it would have been totally fine).  9 going on 15!