Trick-or-Treating at the CMU Fraternities and Sororities!!

After the Linden parade Jacob and I headed over to Casey's school with her costume. About three months ago Casey told me she wanted to dress as "Lady Bug Girl" for Halloween. Lady Bug Girl is this awesome character in a series of kids' books. Her real name is Lulu, and she has an older brother. She is brave and funny and fierce and adorable! Here is the cover of the first book in the series.


On this Friday before Halloween it was wintery cold, somewhere in the lower 40s. So earlier that day I bought some warm black tights, some leg warmers, and a sweater to go with Casey's costume. Jacob and I helped Casey get dressed, and then we walked across the street from Casey's school to the Greek quad, where about a dozen frats and sororities were each throwing their own private Halloween party just for kids.

At the first house Jacob became the star four square player. The fraternity brothers lined up to play him and he got a lot of them out legitimately. It was the happiest I have seen Jacob in a long time.


To solve the leg tie problem, after the debacle at Linden, we just took them off. We also stopped by the house to paint the Ang arrow on Jacob's forehead. And, because all the fraternity guys grew up watching the Nickelodeon Avatar series, they knew just who Jacob was dressed as!


Casey admired the spooky spider webs.


She also looked just like Lady Bug Girl!


A very nice sorority sister helped Casey make a Halloween cat!



During the two hours that we spent in the Greek quad the kids netted a ton of candy, played games, made crafts, and generally had a blast! Though I've never been a huge fan of the Greek system, on this Friday afternoon they made everyone in my family very happy!