Halloween 2011

The boys love a pumpkin patch! We could stay there all day - and the one that we go to has a choo choo, bounces houses and a little petting zoo area making it even more fun to drag the boys home. We let the boys pick the pumkin and I drew the face and Billy carved it. We are "happy" jack-o-lantern people hence the goofy smile.










Now, before you judge me based on the photos below (and the striking resemblance they bear to last year's costumes), please know that it was not out of cheapness, laziness or meanness that I subjected them to a second year switch. The bottom line is that when either one of them has to wear anything but a t-shirt and pants, it is all out tearfest. Andrew cries and pulls at the jacket sleves saying "sha-cat no" and Luke whines "we don't like jatets." So at the beginning of October, I dug out last years costumes to do a dry run and it was a nightmare. Neither boy would keep it on both boys were sweating and crying - and so, in anticipation of an epic fail on the 31st, Billy and I decided to reduce, reuse and recycle. Luke became a chicken (and refused to wear the hat or the feet, so he looked like a terri cloth gum ball) and Andrew was a pumpkin, also resisted the darling matching hat.

We went to a halloween party before trick or treating where Luke spent most of the time collecting acorns (neither Billy nor I noticed this at the time). So you can imagine our surprise when we dumped out their treat bags and found about 20 acorns mixed in with the candy! Luke was petrified of trick or treating, he would disolve in tears when we approached the door, but the prospect of candy was enough for the little guy to subject himself to it, over and over again.

Those boys (and their mom) slept well that night! And next year like it or not, we are retiring the pumpkin and the chicken.