I love Halloween. I think I may even like it more than my kids. I love to decorate and make lots of spooky treats. However, this year I am so glad it is over! It seemed to go on and on!
The festivities started Tuesday night when we made caramel apples for Ryker's school party on Wednesday. He brought home A LOT of treats from that party and I hid them in the laundry room so he would not eat too many and get sick.
Fast forward to Friday. I was busy. Took Lancer to school, came home, cleaned up and then worked on Lancer's costume. Ryker was having hot cocoa and playing in the playroom.......So I thought. He was pretty quiet, so I knew something was up. I went downstairs and he had found his candy. There he was in the family room, dancing around scattered candy wrappers and a big puddle of spilled cocoa. I had just been up until 2 am the Monday before cleaning that carpet. So I was not in the best of moods. I was scared that he was going to get a tummy ache, but I had to hurry and get him ready to go pick up Lancer from a half day of school, and then take Ryker out to Layton for a birthday party.
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| Sharks love birthday parties! |
After he went to the party, we were supposed to go to the pumpkin patch. But when I picked him up he was really whiny and said he had a tummy ache (big surprise), so we ended up just buying some pumpkins at the store and then staying home for the night.
Instead of getting sick from eating too much candy, he ended up getting my cold and having asthma issues. I am so thankful that our pediatrician set us up with a nebulizer in August. It makes his asthma so much easier to deal with. Anyway, Saturday he ended up sleeping on the couch most of the day. By the time it was time to get dressed for trick or treating, he was feeling better and ready to go. However, he did say he didn't want anymore "junk".
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Showing family all the candy we were
giving out |
Lancer went as Eddie Munster this year. I love that my kid likes to have fun and original costumes. I spent hours on the costume, and I think he looked pretty good.
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| He even had pointy ears |
He loved making people guess who he was, and it was amazing how many people knew! As a tradition, we used to go to my Nana's neighborhood to go trick-or-treating, but since she has gotten older and my grandpa is gone, now we have her and my parents over to our house.
This year it rained and Lancer's black hair ran down his face and smeared his make-up. Rain or not, nothing was stopping that kid from getting his candy. We braved the wet weather and stayed out for a couple of hours. He got a lot of candy, but since I hid both of their bags, neither one of them has asked for any candy.
Richie got really into handing out treats this year. He sat on the porch with his mask on, looking pretty scary. When Lancer saw that, he immediately took over scaring the neighborhood kids. Even though I thought Richie had totally bought too many bags of candy, we had more kids than last year and ended up giving it all away.
By Sunday, we were exhausted. One more Halloween is over and I am glad. My kids told me they already want me to start on next years costumes. I think I will wait until after Christmas.
