Thursday, November 5, 2009

Halloween

For weeks, James had planned on being Spiderman and Kate a princess. The Thursday prior to Halloween was the day to wear costumes to school. James decided to take his Buzz Lightyear costume from last year, but then never put it on. Kate put on a princess dress, wore it for 5 minutes, and then changed into a chicken costume that she wore for all of school.

Kate had been counting down the days until she will get lots and lots of candy ever since Ben and I returned from vacation. Halloween night did not disappoint. The evening started off with a Trunk or Treat at the church parking lot. Very efficient and some fabulous costume to view - adults and kids. Then the kids trick-or-treated their way back home, getting ever more tired the closer we got to home. They even skipped the three houses before ours.

The whole of the holiday was lost on Robert. He held a candy in his hand until arriving at the next bowl. Then he'd swap the candy he had been holding for one in the new bowl. All the while he was trying to eat whatever piece was in his hand. He gnawed a hole in a snickers wrapper and managed to suck the entire candy bar into his mouth through the little hole.

A happy chicken.
An unhappy chick.A hot pirate.
A fun trio to follow.
A chicken and an action figure with candy buckets
that were supposed to match their costumes.
Filling the buckets at the first door (ours).
At the Trunk or Treat.
Trick-or-treating at Jim and Meg's.

6 comments:

Leslie said...

Funny!!!! But they were cute anyway!

Sherri said...

Very cute! I love the emotions of the two chickens.

tenacious d said...

Cute costumes anyway. That was funny how they Trick-or-Treated first at their own home. Is that like priming the tip jar? If people see they have already been given candy, they must be worth more candy?

Just one tall girl named Laurel said...

Duck, duck, goo-- er, Buzz.

Jenny said...

I would have paid a pretty penny to see Ben's costume in person.

Hot stuff.

I really do need to let Nate know that real men dress up.

Mindi said...

Happy Halloween kiddies! Way to dress up Ben! .. and congrats on your recent success.