Not only did Sophie put on her costume for the show but she sang every song. I was even more shocked that she was not one of the hanhdful of kids crying for mommy and daddy during the show. This is so remarkable for her and we are very proud. Sophie stood next to her new best friend, Maggie, during the entire show. If we can figure it out, we'll upload the video tomorrow.
When she arrived home later, we carved the pumpkins (of course, we had to take the ubiquitous "puppy" picture) and she put on her costume once more to go trick or treating.
She is very excited by the whole thing but doesn't really have the stamina to go more than a block. 
I was so funny hiding.
It’s so so funny to dance.
Ella so funny from watching the goats and the llamas. Mommy was feeding the goats with me. Daddy has goat spit on his hand.
I take good pictures because I have sensilated eyes. 
Sophie meticulously made her own bed...
...and repositioned all of her animals one, by one, by one, by one, BY ONE, BY ONE... 
When all was done, she fluffed her pillows and firmly resisted that it was time to go to bed. 
Sophie has been fixated on cutting things lately. Actually, I should re-phrase that. Sophie has been fixated on cutting EVERYTHING lately. She got a pair of kiddie scissors for her birthday to do crafts and has used it to make her mark on the newspapers, construction paper, underpants, shirts, shorts, socks, you name it. Needless to say, we've had to put a bit of a damper on the cutting now that we know how "creative" she can get.
I have enjoyed watching her do one thing lately with her scissors: cut-out dragons. I may have this wrong but I think that Sophie believes that the Chinese dragon is the scariest thing in the world. She shied away from it at Chinese New Year and claimed that the supposed "friendship" that she witnessed between the dragon and Southpaw at the Dragon Boat Races kept her from meeting Southpaw. It has become the bane of her existence. So much so that she now cuts out little dragon effigies and makes her "scary voice" and says, "I've got a dragon here", as if it will frighten us to run away.
After some prompting, I convinced Sophie that, since it is Halloween and we want to make it look spooky, we should decorate the front porch with her dragons. We spent tonight drawing and cutting out eyes and mouths and pasting them on the dragons we've collected this week. We didn't complete that many of them but I think she had pretty good stamina for a 4 year old. They look extra scary with the black lights on the porch. Let's hope they don't scare away all the trick or treaters. 
