Happy Halloween!

Our Halloween fun started early this year with a party at Nick’s school. The younger kids paraded through the hallways and into the gym in their costumes and then headed back to their classrooms for a little Halloween party (afternoon snack). I have pictures, but don’t want to post since some of Nick’s school friends are in them. Nick got to leave school with us so we gathered up the other boys and headed home for a quick dinner before heading out in the neighborhood. I once again tried to get a picture of my boys in their costumes and once again failed at getting everyone to look at me and smile. Hey, a mother can dream right?

First, Nick tried to put Ben in the pumpkin. Speaking of pumpkins … there are the pumpkins we carved this weekend. Cute, eh?

 

Then Zander gave me his strong man pose.

Then they tried really hard to give me one good picture so we could get a move on with the real reason for the night.

We never got it, but I did make Mike take this picture.

And then we were off. The boys did a great job of saying “Trick-or-Treat” and only had to be reminded to say “Thank you” at about every fifth house.

The boys gave us the play-by-play of everything they got at each house. I think that is what Zander is doing here, but it looks like he is doing something else entirely. I cracked up when I saw this on the computer.

We saw our backyard neighbor. She is in Nick’s grade at school but is Zander’s size.

Zander made it through to the exact furthest point from our house before deciding he was ready to call it quits. His biggest complaint was that his bucket was too heavy. I carried it for him for awhile and I can’t say I blame the kid. Mike thought we could sneak through a backyard and get home quickly, but a mean looking dog told us otherwise. Instead, Mike gave him a ride for the rest of the night. 

Ben snuggled up in the Moby and fell asleep just a few houses in. He’s getting so big now though that it is hard to keep his head from flopping when he is asleep.

At home the boys quickly sorted through their loot.

Because of Nick’s allergy we have to be extra careful on nights like this. He is really good about it though. He dumps his candy out and sorts it into three piles: Yes, No and Maybe.

Mike or I have to check all the maybes to see if they are actually safe or not.

Zander decided he wanted to help pass out candy to the approximately three kids who came to our door. He looked so cute sitting there waiting for someone to knock.

And then they went to bed. And we scared the crap out of Nick. I’d show you the video but someone might call protective services on us and that would be bad. The quick synopsis: boys are sounding all cute playing with their new flashlights so we go to tape them. The door was shut and Mike opens it just enough to stick the Flip in the crack. Nick sees the floating red light and screams in terror. I laugh. Yeah, I’m that mom. And you can hear me on the camera. Mike laughs, too. You can’t hear him, but you see the camera shake. That’s him. Laughing. Hopefully it won’t end up costing us thousands in therapy bills.