Halloween 2014

Another successful Halloween on the books! The kids went easy on me this year. Eve decided to be a bear, which consisted of wearing her teddy bear PJs and a hat. It took a tiny bit of work (Etsy browsing) to find a bear hat and she made a paper mask (which she promptly lost) and voila, that was her costume. She actually spent more time dressing her teddy bear, the Princess of Eflica, then making her own costume.

Lex, on the other hand, opted for a complex costume he made himself, with just a little help from me. He worked hard on it and it came out awesome!

painting

“Spray painting is fun!”

painting p2

Checking out his handy work.

with eve p1

He took a break from the painting to help Eve build fairy houses.

with eve p2

Sibling love. Pure perfection.

robot in progress

The costume is coming along nicely.

robot cat

Daisy likes the costume.

daisy

Daisy cat

He spray painted the boxes, attached pie tins with brass fasteners, decorated with card stock and metallic markers, and added a few pieces of bling with super glue.

With the costumes complete I really wanted to take them out and show them off. I was thinking of my elementary school and the community Halloween party each year. I posted about it on FB and apparently lots of other communities in our area still do such a thing, but not our school. Oh well. Instead we decided to go to our little local mall. Each year they do trick-or-treating. We went once or twice in the past (2009, 2010, 2012), but it’s always packed and not my favorite place to go. This year we needed to buy a birthday present for a party today, so I thought it would be fun to go trick-or-treating and present shopping at the same time. It ended up being a lot of fun!

car

Have robot, will travel.

bear and robot

A bear and a robot go to the mall.

together

Trick-or-treating at the mall.

Back home we had the usual over-stimulated Halloween dinner interrupted by trick-or-treaters, then they got back in costumes and headed out! As usual I stayed home to hand out candy and Alan took them out.

ghosts

My last minute Halloween decorations.

a ghost

A water bottle, sharpie, and a glow stick. Easy peasy.

all done

Last stop, our house. I let them take three pieces each from the candy bowl!

candy

“Mom, I got six Reese’s for you!” He takes good care of his momma!

lots of candy

The loot! We munched on candy, watched the Simpson’s Halloween episode, then passed out!

A good night was had by all! Happy Halloween.

Today they spent some time sorting and organizing their candy. They traded candy (“How about my Mars bar for your Mars bar?”) and building candy towers. It was really sweet to hear and reminded me of being a kid. Siblings. Sweets. Holidays. Happiness.

2 thoughts on “Halloween 2014

  1. Lex, that robot is amazing!!!!

    I love the candy trading. We had that in our house for the first time this year and it so reminded me of being a kid!

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