The Obligatory Halloween Post

The best things about Halloween this year:

1. The kids wanted to be things that were very easy for me, as we already had bunny & cat ears, and Sprout conveniently was the right size for the little cow suit.

2. As it was on a Saturday, our friends had an afternoon halloween party that was very fun. I ate way too much yummy food (which was fun for me).

3. The kids actually didn't trick or treat that much, so rationing their candy (after the first couple of days) wasn't that big of a deal. They finished the last of it this morning.

4. We get free pumpkins thanks to my in-laws' garden. Yippee!



And because I'm messing around with the picture size, some of them look a little blurrier than they should. Click on them for a crisper version (if you care that much).

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The squiddos (as I like to call them...sometimes they are squid 1 and squid 2) picked their own characters for halloween this year. Peter Pan (because he has a sword!) and a nice witch. I was happy that we were able to get them outfitted with minimal effort on my part. A bit of hemming on the sleeves of Noodle's dress (it's actually a nice, velour type Sunday dress that we got at Savers for $4), some cutting of Spud's green tee shirt ($2.50 at Michaels Crafts), and I had to sew the Peter Pan hat (about $1 for the felt). Yippee! They had a fun time trick or treating and then we came home and watched The Secret of Nimh.

Halloween

Here's the kiddos at our homeschool Halloween party yesterday. They had a blast, but Spud was none too keen on keeping his costume on. Unfortunately the nose-picking one is the best of the shots before he started taking his costume off angrily. Actually, there was one other moderately okay one, but honestly, the nose-picking is more representative of his true character lately!

The kids had fun trick-or-treating, but Spud was not nearly as into it as Noodle was at his age. He made it a couple of streets, then asked David to take him home. And he had to be accompanied up to every door. And from the first piece of candy from the first house, he was never without something in his hand (& mouth) to eat. When Noodle was 3, she finally "got it" and ran from door to door, scarcely caring if we were even without view. Maybe next year.