Happy Halloween!

Better late than never, I guess.  Here is a picture of the kids all ready for trick-or-treating on halloween.

William, you will notice, is not in costume.  He has been unbelievably badly behaved at daycare lately and was warned that if he didn’t have a good day on Halloween, he would not be going trick-or-treating.  He was beyond awful that day (gee, think it could have been all the sugar from the *morning* party? ugh…) so we had to follow through and not let him trick-or-treat.  He walked along with us but had to pass up the candy offered to him.

For the kids that did get to dress up, I was a huge slacker…normally I make the kids’ costumes.  I found Katey’s costume at Old Navy for $5.  It was cheap and warm so I couldn’t pass it up.  Aiden had his heart set on being an army guy, which was quick and easy and meant no work for me.

Alex, too, led me to believe he was going to be an army guy until about 6 pm the night before Halloween when he announced that actually wanted to be a robot as we had discussed earlier in the month.  So I found myself making an emergency trip to Wal-Mart and working until the wee hours of the morning on a robot costume.  I even got up early the next morning to finish it as Alex needed it for a Halloween parade at school.  For those of you that know me, you know what a chore it is for me to get up early in the morning!  In all, it’s not my best work.  I feel like I need to make another robot costume next year for one of the kids to redeem myself.

I think my favorite two costumes over the years have been the ducks and duck hunter in 2005 or the cupcake in 2006 .  This was when my kids were still young enough to go along with my suggestions, although I have a hard time believing I actually put Aiden in a cupcake costume!  Sometime, somewhere this will come back to bite me.