Halloween Weekend (and week)

Getting ready to go to a party can be hard work. Mister W fell asleep on our way to our church fall festival party. I couldn't help but snap a photo of the dragon sleeping in my backseat.

 

Once we got there we tried to get a photo of everyone together, but our elephant kept trying to crawl away as soon as we put him down. :o)

 

What fun we had! We played lots of games, we colored pictures and we had a blast.

 

Then it was off to a museum for their halloween party. Both kids got their faces painted. Miss L wanted a space shuttle (I love that kid!).

 

...and mister W went with (what else?) a dragon.

 

Sweet little man just grinned and hung out in his stroller.

 

It was a big day with two parties. There were crafts to do, races to run, and candy to collect. Both miss L and mister W were super excited to see Cinderella and miss L was doubly excited when Cinderella knew exactly who she was (princess Tiana, of course!).

 

Between all the activity and the sugar we crashed as soon as we got home and slept long and hard. Yay!

Sunday we decided it was time to carve our big pumpkin that we'd picked. Miss L knew what grossness was going to come out of it but mister W was very interested in seeing what was going to happen with his dad lifted the lid off of the pumpkin.

 

Eww! As expected miss L was totally grossed out (if for nothing other than show) and mister W was very interested (because he's two and loves to get messy!).

 

Miss L helped to scoop out at an arm's length.

 

Mister W got right into it. :o)

 

Finally it was done! Somehow I didn't get a photo of the finished pumpkin! How could it be?! I seem to miss a lot with my lens these days. It was lots of fun though. The pumpkin had two faces, one picked out by mister W online and drawn onto the pumpkin and a scary face that miss L drew herself! Next year, we might just have to get TWO pumpkins. (are we there already?!)

 

Wednesday morning we put on our Halloween shirts and got ready to go. We did our princess Tiana hair.

 

...and we tried to pose for a few photos.

 

We ate our dinner and got ready to go trick or treating with the same buddies we've gone with every year. The kids went further and enjoyed more candy than ever before and we stuck with our "eat whatever you want tonight and then tomorrow it disappears" method. They just don't know it disappears into mommy and daddy's stomachs. Oops!

 

Happy Halloween!