Trick or Treat

Not too many stories to tell about Halloween this year. I always love seeing my kids dressed up in their costumes and they love trick or treating.

Ready for trick or treating on Main Street . . . I was a gypsy ( it started out as a fortune teller, but the boys lost my awesome crystal ball and I was no longer able to foretell the future). We used to love the Main Street Trick or Treat, because it gave us something fun to do during the day on Halloween, but now there are SO many people; I don't know that we will do it again next year. We may have to find some other fun activity - any ideas?

At any rate, it was fun and Corbin's costume was VERY popular. At first he really didn't like everyone pointing and commenting, but I explained to him that this was a good thing. It meant that they liked his costume and they thought he looked awesome. By the end he was totally proud of it and was smiling from ear to ear every time someone said something.

Corbin and I had been looking at lots of costume ideas in magazines and online and when we came across this, we knew it was just the one for him. He picked yellow because that was his favorite color. I made the hat a little different than the one we saw, and I think the whole costume turned out pretty sweet.

Cody found this costume in our costume box weeks ago, and has loved it ever since. Aside from the fact that we always call him "Cody-bug", I think it totally fits his cute, busy little personality. I loved watching him run around cause the little bum would wiggle as he ran from one person to the next. I also loved that he refered to him self as caterpillar ("Caterpillars love suckers", as he opens yet another piece of candy), and we were expected to do the same ("Mom, you have to say 'Caterpillar wash your hands, not Cody wash your hands'").

Have you ever seen a cuter monkey? Colton's costume was very fitting as we have called him "Monkey", or "Monk" for short, since he was about 9 months old and would do this cling on thing with every time you held him. Plus he has these scrawny little arms and legs and can manuever like only little flexible 1 year olds can. He's just so cute! I wanted to paint his face like a little monkey, but I figured that wouldn't work so well, since I spend half my day wiping something from his nose, mouth, chin, etc. Colton spent most of the day with a sucker or other piece of candy in his mouth. My only consolation was that he drooled most of the sugar onto his outfit and he rarely actually finished what he was eating before moving onto the next piece.

Back at the homestead we got ready for some more trick or treating around the neighborhood. I love where we live, it is so kid friendly! Although, thanks to Russ's awesome webbing skills, some kids were afraid to come to our door - there were several parents who came bearing their child's bag.

As we headed out that evening, Cody decided he would rather hang around with Dad and play, so I pushed Colton around while Corbin trick or treated with Hermoine and a storm trooper (aka Nadia and David).