I don't have a lot of time to write (could I be ANY MORE BUSY???), but here is a recap of our Halloween adventures...
Laurel had two costumes, I guess. I originally planned for her to be the chicken that
Wesley was when he was 18 months, but she refused to wear it. She'd take it off a minute after we put it on. Sigh. It's SO CUTE. Someone on my Facebook mommy group had a monkey costume and was looking to swap. Well, Laurel LOVES monkeys and the gal was interested in the chicken, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I kissed the chicken goodbye (sad sad day) and got the monkey.
Here are some of her NOT liking the chicken....
Well, she kept the monkey on for longer (like I said, she likes monkeys), but she still would only wear it for 10 minutes at a time.
At the ward Halloween party, we put her Incredibles pajamas on underneath the monkey, so if she freaked out she'd at least have a backup costume. She wore the monkey all through the chili dinner, but by the time they were to trick or treat around the Church, she monkey was off and she was an Incredi-buddy.
It's kinda a bummer, since the chicken is SO cute and SO intriguing, a lot of people haven't seen it before. The monkey costume is really popular. There were FOUR monkeys at the ward Halloween party. The same. exact. costume. (Gotta love Old Navy.)
Anyway, she did better trick or treating as a monkey. Well, as soon as I got her in it and it was time to go, we had to like, wait a sec for Wesley to find his boots or something, and she kept saying, "all done, all done!" trying to take it off. Sigh. I finally convinced her to keep it on in order to get candy.
Wesley was the spider again. He loved his costume from last year, so when it still fit and he wanted to be it again, I like like, "done! awesome!" No complaints there. He even got to wear it to kindergarten on Halloween and show it off. The hat with the googly eyes as a tad small, but I only made him wear it when we were trick or treating. It's so stinking funny.
This is our house, below... check out our pumpkins. Shane carved his, and mine is painted, and we let the kids go to town and paint their baby pumpkins whatever they wanted. Awesome.
Here are some photos from other festivities....
And the pumpkin patch....
We tried to watch Halloween movies (like Ernest Scared Stupid, a classic!) but Wesley was scared so we reverted to the safe Monsters, Inc. Shane is watching Goonies with the kids right now... haha...
Lastly, I wanted to include my SUPER COOL BOOK CLUB from November 1. Since it was the Day of the Dead, the day after Halloween, 1) we picked a creepy-ish book and then 2) we all celebrated a dead person in some way. One friend made the minestrone that her mother-in-law made, one friend dressed up in her Grandma's cardigan, coat, and hangbag, and another talked about how she took her daughter to a cemetary recently to see the grave of a deceased family member. I felt particularly creative, since I made this awesome fruit dip that has Heath toffee bits in it, and I said I was paying homage to Heath Ledger. I was totally sad when he died. So I felt like I did my part for the Day of the Dead celebration. The book was interesting, a young-adult novel called The Graveyard Book (about a boy being raised by ghosts after his family is murdered), but not everyone finished it so the conversation was somewhat limited. I got through it fast! Don't know what was the holdup for everyone else. I finish pretty much all of the books :-) I'm stinking grateful for my book club. We're having two people "retire" (one is moving away, and another for personal reasons), so we are taking applications for new interested friends, haha.
So that was our October festivities. On to November....
