Literary Characters...

For school today, the boys were able to dress as a character from a book...

Joshua chose Elmer Elevator from My Father's Dragon

and he packed his knapsack "very carefully."

"The night before my father sailed he borrowed his father's knapsack and he and the cat packed everything very carefully. He took chewing gum, two dozen pink lollipops, a package of rubber bands, black rubber boots, a compass, a tooth brush and a tube of tooth paste, six magnifying glasses, a very sharp jackknife, a comb and a hairbrush, seven hair ribbons of different colors, an empty grain bag with a label saying "Cranberry," some clean clothes, and enough food to last my father while he was on the ship. He couldn't live on mice, so he took twenty-five peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and six apples (he only took one of each of these), because that's all the apples he could find in the pantry"

Micaiah dressed as Squanto complete with face paint that he painted on himself...