Halloween Hysteria

So here we are in the 2nd week of November. Where does the time go? I love this time of year. The brilliant Fall colors in North Carolina are amazing and I just wish I could bottle the beauty of this season. One of my favorite parts about the Fall is the anticipation of Halloween. Every year it gets better and better because we can view it through Graden's eyes and get excited about it with him. I'm sure Harper will get into it on down the road, but this year she was in bed by 7:30.



He really got into the festivities this year. Every day he had a different idea of what he was going to be (a knight, skeleton, Flash, Batman, Superman) and in the end Superman won. Thank you, Auntie Mindy for saving the day with the speedy delivery of his costume. He was so tickled! He is a superhero freak, so I would have been shocked if he had gone another route. It cracked me up how each day he would change his mind depending on what his mood was. I guess most kids have a hard time making up their minds at this age. He decided he wanted Harper to be Catwoman, Mommy to be Wonderwoman (yeah right), and Daddy to be Green Lantern. In the end, Harper was a black cat and Mommy did not get scantily clad as Wonderwoman. Wasn't going to go there. Especially since Daddy found out that Graden has a little crush on Wonderwoman when he caught him kissing the computer screen while watching a video on youtube.



I helped plan Graden's Halloween party at school and he had a good time dressing up with all of his buddies. Don't ask me why I decided that we should have the children decorate their own cookies after my son dumped an entire bottle of sprinkles in his mouth causing it to turn completely black a few days prior to the party. Check out the pic that I took of him after I told him that the cookie decorating was going to stop if he couldn't stop tipping back the sprinkles as if they were shots of tequila! He was not a happy camper.



We shared Halloween night with good friends, The Gilmore's, The Birely's, and The Knopfle's. We had a little pizza party before going out to trick our treat and it was lots of fun to see the kids in their costumes. They even got their official Halloween portraits taken down in the basement since Larisa was trying out her new lighting and backdrop. Not that any of them stayed still for very long!



We were sad to see Halloween go and we are still plowing through the mound of candy that came along with the good times. Every morning Graden has to get his little chair out, scoot it up to the counter, and peer into the Spiderman bucket to pick up his piece of candy for the day. Luckily he knows that he actually has to have permission to open it...nice one! Can't wait to see what next year will bring!