Halloween Day at KDLP

For those of you who don’t know, or don’t remember, Cory and I were classmates in 2nd grade (until he moved to Ann Arbor a few months into the school year). We were classmates long enough to celebrate Halloween together in 1993, though we don’t remember each other.

We came to this realization when we started dating our senior year of high school. We found out (or maybe our moms found out) that we had both been in Mrs. Brunk’s class at Lincoln. Cory’s mom thought, “Wouldn’t it be funny if there was a picture of you two together?” Turns out there was! Cory’s mom found the photo below, and we’ve since made many copies of it - it even sat out at my high school grad party. Later, we watched some old home video footage of that fateful day, and my 2nd-grade-self was spotted on screen.

So apparently, this Halloween, Cory and I were channeling our former seven-year-old selves.

Here we are in the morning on Friday, October 30th, getting ready to greet the children (and snapping some photos of our own). Cory was a monster and I was a ballerina. Our co-workers were dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl and an anime fighter. :)

Here we are in second grade, October of 1993. I was an “old-fashioned schoolgirl” (I tended to, spur of the moment, make up random costume ideas that only I understood…), and Cory was a purple dinosaur (not to be mistaken for Barney).

Note the minute similarities:

I have my hair in a bun and came up with a costume using clothing from my closet (plus a skirt from a friend this year).

Cory is wearing a colorful, dorky, homemade costume (not his mom’s handiwork this time, but crafted by his own hands).

I guess we’ve come full circle.