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<\/a>“Spray painting is fun!”<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Checking out his handy work.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>He took a break from the painting to help Eve build fairy houses.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Sibling love. Pure perfection.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The costume is coming along nicely.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Daisy likes the costume.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Daisy cat<\/p><\/div>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>, 2010<\/a>, 2012<\/a>), 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! <\/p>\n Have robot, will travel.<\/p><\/div>\n A bear and a robot go to the mall.<\/p><\/div>\n Trick-or-treating at the mall.<\/p><\/div>\n 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. <\/p>\n My last minute Halloween decorations.<\/p><\/div>\n A water bottle, sharpie, and a glow stick. Easy peasy.<\/p><\/div>\n Last stop, our house. I let them take three pieces each from the candy bowl!<\/p><\/div>\n “Mom, I got six Reese’s for you!” He takes good care of his momma!<\/p><\/div>\n The loot! We munched on candy, watched the Simpson’s Halloween episode, then passed out!<\/p><\/div>\n A good night was had by all! Happy Halloween. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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) … Continue reading <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>