Halloween ... before Thanksgiving

Okay, I realize that I'm really cutting it close, but I told myself I had to have the Halloween pics up before Thanksgiving. So here I am at 11pm Wed night, but hey ... I made my goal! The kids didn't have school on Halloween, so we had fun at home all day. We even went over to Cold Stone Creamery where they had $.31 cones for the day.
This first picture is on our way to get dinner on Halloween night. On the 31st, after 6pm, Chipotle restaurant, gives away free burritos to anyone who comes in dressed as a burrito (in other words ... is wearing foil). So here are the guys with foil on their heads and around their arms. I had a foil headband and bracelets. If you haven't seen their burritos before, they are huge and cost $6 each so it was a really good deal. The line wasn't too long and moved quickly and we got $30 of burritos for free!

After dinner we got dressed to go trick-or-treating. The older boys all wanted to be Ninjas this year. I wasn't sure what I was going to have them wear, but then I found 2 karate uniforms at a thrift store that were the perfect size for Benjamin and Bryant. I was so excited! Grayson used our Batman jumpsuit and we covered the Batman symbol. I quickly made some hats and baklavas out of fleece, added some sashes and swords and voila ... NINJAS! (If they were reading this, I would be corrected ... they were Shadow Ninjas.)

Connor was Tigger. He was so good while we were out. He just sat in the stroller watching everyone and didn't fuss once!

Benjamin and Tigger.

Checking out all the loot.

Benjamin was very happy about all the candy!
After trick-or-treating, and candy inspection, we jumped into our pjs and watched Ichabod Crane. All in all it was a fun Halloween.

Carving Pumpkins

Scooping out the guts ... this was the first year all of them wanted to get in there and get messy.

Watching intently while Rehn carved out the pumpkin.

Connor came and joined in the fun before he headed off to bed ... he liked playing with the top of the pumpkin.

This year we had each boy draw a face for the pumpkin. Then we took one thing from each of their pictures. We used Benjamin's eyes, Bryant's mouth and told Grayson we used his nose. He drew a picture, but it wasn't easy to distinguish facial features and he didn't want to pose for this picture. I just realized that I don't have a shot of the finished product. But it looked cool with it's vampire teeth ... at least until the squirrel got to it!

What do you say to that?

Last night, Rehn and I were upstairs and the 3 boys were playing downstairs. Soon we hear Grayson coming upstairs crying (he had been VERY whiny all day so we were not surprised). This is the conversation had between Rehn and Grayson.

R: What's wrong?

G: Bryant pushed me.

R: Did you do anything to him?

G: no

R: I'm not sure about that. Tell me everything that happened.

G: Bryant pushed me.

R: And what did you do before that?

G: I just put my booty in his face.

The conversation ended there because Rehn was laughing too much to say anything else. Grayson will always tell you exactly what happened. He may not see the error of his ways, but he will tell you about it! Now if I can just get him to stop saying booty ... and in case you need clarification, he did not mean something you put on your foot or a pirate's treasure.

The picture has nothing to do with this ... just a silly pic of G in one of his well picked outfits. I wouldn't let it fly if it was for daytime, but when it comes to PJs just about anything goes. I'm just happy he can get himself dressed and willing does it when asked.