Where toddlers melt down, pre-schoolers run amok, and their parents drink hot toddies out of travel mugs while walking around in the pitch dark. Fun for all!
October 31 started with [finally] carving our pumpkins.
Hmmm...what is in here?
Something Alex did not like. No sirree.
Those scary pumpkins! We put him down for a nap and Ashton finished up.
From the inside looking out...
Eventually it was time to don the COSTUMES. After much ado (like seriously, the entire month of October).
Ta-dah! Tell me, do I look like a covert agent in feudal Japan that specializes in espionage, sabotage, infiltration and assassination?
Ashton really has no idea what a ninja even is. When he first put on his costume he said, "Great! Now watch me make things DISAPPEAR!" Ummm...meanwhile:
Just a dog and his iPhone. Frankly Alex looked more like a baby seal. It's hard to describe.
Berg and Karen came over for Jayden's first trick-or-treating experience, so we had a ninja, a puppy, and an elephant!
And there ends pretty much all my decent pictures. The boys were off like a shot as soon as we said go.
The whole loop didn't last long. When we got back to the house around 6:30 pm, I don't know what I was thinking, but I tried to make Ashton sit down and have dinner. The doorbell kept ringing so he kept popping up and running full speed to the front door. Listening to him tell the trick-or-treaters "Guys! Look you could have this one. Or look at this one! You know, you can take two!" it was just too much. He was obsessed with the candy - the bright colors, the shiny wrapping, all the different kinds...
When it was over, I told him to choose his favorite piece to try first.
He picked out a totally disgusting marshmallow lollipop and luckily hated it. Alex had a dum-dum and no joke, handed this back to me when he was done.
Ashton was on cloud nine in his costume with his candy. He told Jason: "Daddy! I have a secret. I'm gonna stay up late tonight, and if Mommy asks, start talking about something else." !!!
The entire next day Ashton dragged the green pumpkin that housed his beloved candy around with him. It did not leave his sight. He would empty all the candy out, count it, organize it, admire it, put it back and then do it all over again. He took his nap with the pumpkin right by his pillow. He asked over and over again which kinds he could have. Did this one have egg in it? What about peanuts? Could he have this one piece after lunch and this one piece after dinner? Actually, no, how about this one and then this one? What if he saved the piece I said he could have after lunch so he could have two after dinner? It.was.all.he.talked.about. He actually cried at one point because Halloween was not every day.
By the end of the weekend I was like ENOUGH WITH THE CANDY ALREADY!!! But what proved to be far scarier than Halloween was how long Sunday was. We turned the clocks back. The boys were up at 6 am and it was officially the lonnnngesssssst daaaaaay everrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It was dark at five pm. Five! It was almost enough to put Ashton back in his ninja costume so he could make me disappear.
HAPPY
HALLOWEEN!
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