halloween celebrating at school

Bob and SJ's school had their Halloween celebration on Friday.  I was a party parent for SJ's room with another student's mom.  We had small pumpkins for them to decorate and Ghost Bowling for them to play.  She had arrived a little earlier than I and gratefully had most of them in their costumes.  We passed out the pumpkins for them to begin decorating.  A few minutes later, other classrooms began parading through SJ's room (including Bob's).  Bob was dressed up a "classic ghost", which is just a white sheet with holes for his eyes thrown over his head.  SJ was dressed up as Waluigi (from the Mario Bros. series).  SJ's class tagged on to another 4th grade class and joined the parade. 

While the kids were parading, the other mother and I busied ourselves with passing out their Halloween treats.  They arrived back in the room a few minutes later.  Some kids were eating, some were decorating the pumpkins, some were just socializing and some were playing the Ghost Bowling. 

What was so amazing to me was that SJ proceeded to introduce me to each and every classmate.  He also told them what my Halloween costume was going to be (Velma Dinkley).  SJ has made such strides socially in the last year.  I am not sure if it is from the extra speech therapy or that he is simply maturing.  Whatever it is, I will take it!  I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the kids in their costumes and having fun, but I really enjoyed seeing SJ blend in with the rest of his typical classmates!