Halloween

Well another successful Halloween has come and gone! The kids had a great time. Our new neighborhood was awesome for trick or treating. It was pretty impressive, reminded me of one of those cute Halloween movies where the streets are packed with kids in costumes. It was almost like there was a timer set. All the kids and parents came out about 5:45 and the fun began and then at about 7:45 everyone was back in their homes and the streets were empty again and quiet, no one else came the rest of the night.

Xander was a fisherman. He was so excited for Halloween. And so sweet, for several days before Halloween he would say “Happy Halloween Mommy” very randomly. For his costume he kept changing his mind. Started out wanting to be a pirate ghost (sister’s idea), then a plain ghost, then a puppy, then a bear, then a magician (my idea), then a blue ghost (not sure where that came from) then back to a ghost pirate. So we got his costume all ready and mom forgot to take it to school for one of his Halloween parties. He got to have 2 since he goes to school 5 days a week with 2 different groups of kids. MWF class and TH class. Well I kinda forgot and was only thinking about the party on the day of Halloween and so I forgot to bring his costume on Tuesday. Anyway luckily I had dressed him in his little fishing outfit for no reason other than I really like it. He was pretending to go fishing with Daddy’s big pillow fish before we left for school and begged to bring it to show his teachers. Good thing he is so cute and I usually give in to him because I was really glad he had it. It made a great last minute costume. For his party the next day I took his ghost pirate costume to school and he refused to wear it. So that is how he became a fisherman for Halloween this year. Maybe next year he will be a Ghost Pirate!!!

Katie was planning her costume for a good month, maybe longer. She knew she wanted to be a gorilla this year (my $6.00 at the DI finally paid off!!!) At first she wanted to put her princess dress on top and be a gorilla princess. I thought that would have been pretty clever and creative. But she decided to be a plain old scary gorilla. She loved to secretly (at least she thought it was secretly) torment Xander throughout the month, putting her costume on. He was terrified of her. While trick or treating there was a adult dressed up like a monkey that started following us and kept tapping Katie on the shoulder. I was laughing. Katie didn’t think it was too funny. Later she told me he scared her. I told her she should have just roared at him, a gorilla is scarier than a monkey. She said “You’re right, I should have”.

Becca had a Halloween Party earlier in the month with her soccer team. She was a witch for it too, but a mean witch with a green face and warts. For Halloween she wanted to be a nice witch and wear makeup, real makeup. I put bright red lipstick on her. She was looking pretty hot!

Susie started out being a goth teen witch, then decided to be a dead version of Hannah Montanna but didn’t paint her face white, then decided to be a dead rock star! Go figure! Jason and I were very sad this year about Susie. It has happened… our child is now too cool for us. She would not trick or treat with us, she wanted to go with her friends! We saw her several times throughout the night and teased her, she took it pretty well but still would not join us! We are so not ready for this teenager stuff!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween and we hope to hear from you.

Love, Jamie and family