Trick-or-Treating

Another woman in the Relief Society presidency with me at church suggested we send around a sign-up to see if any families at church would be willing to let kids trick-or-treat at their homes on Saturday since Halloween is on a Sunday this year. A bunch of families signed up so we got the kids dressed up and made it to about half of the 30 some houses tonight, driving all over town.

And here is Cookie Monster saying "cooooookie" and singing, "C is for cookie, is good enough for me."

Pumpkin Carving

We carved the kids pumpkins tonight. I did Buddy's and Little Guy's. Buddy wanted an Army Guy pumpkin* to match him. This seems to be a theme with him since last year he and his pumpkin were both firemen and I'm pretty sure that he had me carve his pumpkin to look like a mailman the year before. I asked Little Guy what he wanted his pumpkin to look like and he said, "Cookie Monster." As soon as I cut the top off his pumpkin he got very emotional and asked me I why I was taking his pumpkin apart. We had to show him some pictures of jack-o-lanterns so he understood what we were doing with the pumpkins. Princess Sparkley had a hard time deciding on what her pumpkin should be. We saw a fairy house pumpkin online that she really liked, but she finally settled on a princess pumpkin, complete with accessories. And Daddy carved it for her.


*But then he had me write Navy on the pumpkins name tag.

**The glittery pumpkins on top of my bookshelf were made my Princess Sparkley at her Activity Days activity earlier in the week.

Little Guy Cheek Update

It's been about a week and a half and all of the glue is finally gone from Little Guy's cheek. I've been applying vitamin E several times a day (and at night while he's asleep) like the ER nurse told me to help the scar not be so bad. He HATES it, which is why I do it at night as well when he's asleep and can't fight me.


The day after his ER trip.



Today.

Halloween Party at Church

The kids were super excited for tonight because it was the ward Halloween party/carnival/chili cook-off/costume parade/trunk-or-treat. All squished into one incredibly long and crowded event.

But with it comes... the unveiling of costumes, and how their costumes came about:

Princess Sparkley as Pippi Longstocking
complete with freshly dyed (6-12 washes) red hair
PS wanted to be a character from a novel last year too, but picks books that only 6-8 year old girls have read and know about. This year, she actually wanted to be Annika, Pippi's best friend, and I had to explain that Annika was just a normal girl, like PS already is. She was very happy at the end of the night when she told me lots of grown-ups knew who she was. But with that comes the unspoken... not many kids did and she had to explain it a lot. Oh well, she loved it. AND, she won the "silliest costume" award, a little trophy, for her age group. Her dress is an oversized shirt from Walmart ($5) and mismatched socks from Target ($1 per pair). Everything else (other than the hair dye and wires in her hair) we already owned. I ironed on patches from scraps of fabric we had and called it good.


Buddy as an Army Guy
Buddy was almost a UPS man again this year. And almost a pizza delivery man. But he finally decided on an army guy. I chose to buy him actual camouflage clothing, rather than a costume. So after Halloween, his Old Navy shirt ($8 ish), Target pants ($9.99) and Kmart hat ($5) go into his regular wardrobe. Although I did inform him that he's not allowed to wear them all at the same time except for Halloween. He was a little disappointed that he didn't win anything, but there were a lot of great costumes there and the kid category was especially rough. I think he enjoyed that people kept pretending they couldn't see him, since he was camouflaged and all.


Little Guy as COOKIE Monster
Little Guy wouldn't agree to any costume. Finally we settled on trying to convince him to be a cookie. He turned that into, he being Cookie Monster and Daddy being the cookie. And Daddy agreed. I ordered his hat on Etsy ($8), bought Cookie colored sweat pants at Walmart ($3) and turned a Jayhawk shirt inside out and pinned a scrap fabric Cookie Monster mouth to it. Then we went to work teaching him to say, "COOOKKIIEES" in a funny deep voice. He can also sing, "C is for cookie..." I'll have to film it all. He did a great job at the trunk-or-treat and said trick-or-treat and thank you to everyone (which my older kids were always shy about doing at his age) and I even got him to tell one guy "Cccoookkiiess."


And Daddy as a COOKIE.
Two hula hoops. Tan fabric. Brown fabric. Iron on sticky stuff. Packing tape. A glue gun.





Oh, and I won "most original chili." This makes two years running my chili has won (different recipes, different categories).