At one of our Monday afternoon playdates with the neighbors, Julia was getting a little hot and tired, so I left a perfectly normal playground playdate to walk her back up the hill.
When I returned, I discovered that things had changed a bit whilst I was away.
Things had gotten...a bit...medeival:
You know...a bit swords-and-shieldsy.
...and it was epic and amazing.
So I made a movie of "The Battle of Bruised Knuckles."
We love dressing up in costume (and y'all don't necessarily wait for October to make that happen!). We love candy! We love trick or treating. We love getting in the spoooooky spirit and decorating. We love walking around getting candy with our neighbors. We love carving pumpkins and toasting seeds.
So, when it was time for this Halloween, there was definitely some magic in the air!
Julia, you went as Princess Elsa from Frozen!
Aidan, you followed your newest obsession and went as a GHOSTBUSTER!
On the day of, we packed your lunches up nice:
And I headed off for a Weird day at work dressed as our favorite summer obsession, Weird Al! You kids loved the costume, but were iffy on my mustache. Toby barked at me because he didn't recognize me!
Mommy wasn't going to dress up, but then we made her a costume at the last second, and went as the subject of one of our recent movie nights: A NEWSIE!
The rainy weather cleared, our teams were assembled, and we headed down the hill to collect the Long sisters and miss Ana for trick-or-treating!
And off y'all went...running door to door...not being daunted by an empty house, or spooky electronic ghost (which Aidan gladly "Busted").
As darkness settled in, and the candy baskets got rather full...and as your tummies got fuller and slightly more upset from too much candy consumption.... we called a close to this 2018 eve of ghouls and goblins and chocolate....
And...if you look back on the day and the month leading up to it....there was certainly a BIG spark of MAGIC!
What do you do on a rainy weekend when Mama has class?
Well, you hang out with Daddy and do fun rainy-day activities! Duh!
You bring an umbrella...
You play inside...
You...play outside...without an umbrella...in the rain!
I used to get cabin fever really bad. But when I'm stuck with the both of you, I really don't feel stuck inside at all!
We braved the storm for dinner and dessert:
The next morning we read Bone. A lot of Bone. And then you two PLAYED Bone. Featured here are Lucius and Bartleby? Julia was Thorn, of course!
We played board games and drew...
We went to a hardware store to do a fun halloween craft and eat free hot dogs!
And then...when the rain slowed to a trickle, but a river still flowed down the hill, we got out a wooden boat, and sailed it to the bottom of the street, where we ran into the Long sisters, and had a splashing good time!
Then...you guys dried off, and we carved our Halloween pumpkins!
Finally, Mama met us and we had dinner with the friends. And one of our first official kids tables:
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