Halloween is perhaps my favorite day of the entire year. Is that sad or awesome? Telling the kids that they can hardly believe I don't love my birthday more than I love Halloween. It a holiday just for the sake of having fun, and you know what.... that is exactly all we do.
1. Marianne had two different costumes this year. A minnie mouse, and an elephant. Both are costumes we had, orginally I showed her the elephant and she was excited about it. Then I remembered she had a minnie mouse costume she might prefer. So I dressed her in that for a party, but whenever we talked about Halloween she always said "i be an elephant" So as to not confuse her when the day of Halloween came- an elephant she was. She wore the costume almost the entire day. Starting at around 8:30 am when we dressed her to go to Sam's Halloween play at school.
2. Sam at school with a couple of friends. Another Captain America just like him, and another Avenger- the Hulk. His school program was just a few songs but he really wanted EVERYONE to come, so everyone but Kate who was at school came to support him. It was great to watch him. Sam has had a reputation of being shy in our family- just because he is not as outgoing as Kate or Mari, but he was definatley NOT shy at school, or in the program. He loudly said and sang his parts and happily stood on their little stage area. So proud of himself, and I was too.
3. Next up and not pictured, since we were out and in the car together we decided to get a late breakfast. We went to Kneaders where we had French Toast and Mari had an orange smoothie and a pumpkin sugar cookie. Sounds like a perfect Halloween breakfast.
4. Next we made a scarecrow, put out some lanterns, and hung some spiderwebs. We had some pumpkins and some zombie hands sticking out of the dirt, rats and some more zombie hands all over the windows already in the front yard, but it wasn't enough Halloween for me. So when Kate got home from school I enlisted her and Sam to help me make a scarecrow. We had a great time creating him- it was a new thing for the kids. They are already planning all the different kinds of scarecrows to make next year. Marianne was a bit scared of the scarecrow as she was napping when we made him and only woke up as we were putting on his hat. But she trusted me when I told her to sit in his lap, and she did trying to smile through obvious terror. That girl. Kate was a bit sad that her class didn't really celebrate Halloween- they only played one game and read one Halloween book and got one treat. They were not allowed to wear costumes either.
5. Spooky dinner. Spooky dinner is something I made when Kate was maybe four the first time. Now as soon as October hits, she is asking, reminding, demanding, spooky dinner. I'm glad she likes it and now it is a tradition. In fact- the entire family went the night before Halloween and bought our Halloween candy and a few ingredients for spooky dinner We made jello slime monsters with marshmellow eyes, vampire blood soup, with olive eyeball, mummy hotdogs, Got out our spooky pirate cups from our pirate party, plus a peanut butter eyeball. Plus a red pepper carved with some teeth in it- it was the favorite thing this year. The kids didn't really eat much dinner. They were too excited I guess. Kate requested the mummy hot dogs, Sam requested vampire soup, and Mari looked at all her food and said "scary" in a cracked voice giggling like she has done the entire Halloween season to everything scary. Bethany stared at the food wishing she could have it instead of puree sqaush.
6. Grandpa Anderson stopped by. When I heard he was stopping by I told him he should ring the door bell and trick or treat and that the kids would get a kick out of it. He didn't have a costume so I snuck one out to the door so he could throw on the mask before he knocked. When he did Sam answered the door and couldn't figure out who it was, But Mari knew right away. Of course she thinks it is always grandpa when somebody knocks on the door.
7. A couple of quick pictures in our costumes before we headed out to knock some doors. Our entire family went to the five houses in our culda sac. Then I brought Bethy home and handed out candy to our neighbors and put Bethy bug to sleep. Jake took the three oldest around for more candy. I expected they might be out for 20 more minutes. We have never really trick or treated to more than a handful of homes. Over an hour later they returned. Buckets full, having had the time of their life. It was so fun to hear the bits and pieces about who they saw, what people were giving, and how far they had walked. A whole three blocks. We had about 80 trick or treaters I am guessing in the two hours before we put the kids to bed and turned off our lights.
8. When the kids returned home from trick or treating, we let them eat whatever they want. Our policy is just eat it as much as you want and when it is gone it is gone. Which usually means it is gone in two days. Which is way better than candy for weeks. They ate their candy, blew bubbles they had received, and watched Charlie Brown Pumpkin. Then went downstairs and danced in the dark with some glow sticks.
It is always pretty fun around here with my hilarious and adorable kids. But Halloween is a riot!
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