Halloween 2014

The older the boys are getting, the more fun the holidays are getting!

This year they each picked their own costumes.

Gavin picked, of course, Superman. He's been practicing this role for the last few months wearing his cape daily!

Ethan threw me for a loop more. "Electricity" was his choice!! I asked him to narrow that down and he picked lightening. Yeah, they don't mass produce lightening costumes.

Off to the craft store for some felt, cotton stuffing, and online shopping for a battery operated LED string light.

A few stitches later and ZAP! Here's Ethan!

Chris and mini-me Gavin were a dynamic duo.

Just as in real life, my little bolt of lightening zapped me!

Chris wasn't going to let some strangers give his boys their first sweets of the night!

The day before was the school party!

They had the cutest school parade.

The kids worked on a spooky craft I had prepped for the class.

"Woah, Mommy really loves holidays with us kids!"

"Guilty as charged!"

 

Halloween 2013- Word Up!

This year Ethan was VERY opinionated! He HAD to be "Word Girl," a superhero from PBS with quite the vocabulary. I was sold when he begged for Gavin to be his "sidekick", a "Captain Huggy Face" (her pet monkey that doesn't talk but flies around fighting crime. This show isn't exactly current, a Netflix gem, so I got my first crack at home made costumes.

Here's a frame of reference as virtually no one knows who they were dressed as! Didn't bother them one bit as Ethan shouted "Word Up" running down the sidewalk with his loyal sidekick toddling behind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Splash!

This firefighter doesn't need a truck to spray some water around!

Oh yea, this mom got a costume that was totally usable after October 31st!

Happy Halloween!

Tonight was Gavin's first and Ethan's fourth Halloween!

Who needs a red fire engine when you can stroll through the neighborhood parade on these wheels!?

For the third year in a row, he trick or treated with his neighbor friend, Thane.

They shrieked, "They have their porch light on!!!" running house to house.

"That house gave me TWO!!!"

It was a first for Ethan really as it was the first year he really understood it, chose his own costume, and the first year mom and dad planned on letting him have any of the candy. It was pretty cute, earlier today he saw some neighborhood friends and they offered him some candy. He said "No, not yet! It's not Halloween yet! I want to wait." When he got home with his loot tonight, he was so thrilled he willingly went to bed and forgot about the promised bites he was waiting for. We are still strategizing our candy dispersing strategy, mulling it over while chewing some Snickers and Skittles ;)

 

Ethan's First Field Trip

Our preschool had their first field trip, to a local orchard for their pumpkin festival.

 Ethan was particularly thrilled to meet the "Scared Crows," as he calls them. He's recently developed a couple of fears and seems happy these little hay friends might be scared of things like shadows and surprising sounds like him!

Of course their dump trucks were a hit! And required some serious concentration.

 

Then we picked our own pumpkins in the field.

Pretty great day of school!