Halloween 2013

It's always a long, crazy, memorable day.  Drop Isaac at school.  Drop Ethan at school 5 minutes later.  Drop Miles and Isla with my visiting teacher 10 minutes later.  Grab bags and run back to Ethan's school.  Just in time to catch one shot of Ethan walking by in his school parade.

Run Ethan's homeroom class party.  I always dread my kids eating nothing but junkfood all day so since I was in charge of the party, I let the other moms lead games and crafts while I did a "healthy" snack group.

Mummy bagels with cream cheese and olives.

Pumpkin bread cookies and jack-o-lantern oranges.  Not pictures are the banana ghost we made with chocolate chip faces.  Mostly healthy and lots of fun.  This kid thought his pumpkin orange needed to be sick.  3rd graders are entertaining. What can I say?

A class picture was needed.

Then I was off to pickup Miles and Isla and finally Isaac at Kindergarten.  And then on to Taylor's work party.  First stop for trick-or-treating:  at Grandpa's office of course.  It's so nice these guys get to live so close to one set of their grandparents.  They love him and he loves them and I know he'll always look out for them.

Isla took a while to learn how to trick or treat.  Opening a bag and actually getting the candy IN can be tricky.  And that's if you even WANT to put the candy in the bag instead of in your own mouth.

You can't beat trick or treating indoors when there's candy bowls every few feet.

Ahh, she's figured it out now.

Yep, look for the bowl, reach for the candy, candy goes in bag.

And then I get to eat the candy.  How cute is Isla.  I really struggled to decide on Isla's costume this year.  The only girl Avenger is black widow who just wears black so that wasn't much fun.  So then Isla was on her own for a costume.  In the end, she's obsessed with dogs and I had this costume from when Ethan wore it.  Add a pink bow and we're done.

Oh and here's Isla's twin Oscar.  So cute.

Taylor's sister and brother in law came in family costumes.  Oscar is Eyore but you can't see from the picture.

After lunch and a bit of candy eating it was time to drop Isaac and Miles off at preschool, pickup Ethan from school, then home for a quick nap for Isla and then off again to watch the spanish school parade.

There's Miles.

Ethan was excited to get to pass out Halloween pencils to all the paraders.

And then back home for a quick healthy dinner- spaghetti with meatball eyes.

And then finally on to the neighborhood parade and chili dinner and finally (after much begging from Isaac to be done with talking to neighbors)- trick or treating!

And then since there was no school the next day they all got to stay up and gorge themselves on candy and chocolate and watch a movie.  A perfect day that's finally over.