In more Halloween preparation news ... Riley somehow got obsessed with "bider webs" and wanting to make our house "pooky." Amazingly, Target still had piles of the fake spider webs a few days before Halloween. Unfortunately, I forgot how hard and annoying it is to make that stuff stick and look decent and I didn't count on gusty windstorms coming through that whole week. Ohs wells.
We learned from past mistakes and held off on carving the pumpkins until two days before Halloween. In past years, we eagerly dove in, and ended up with a mushy orange-and-green mess come Oct. 31.
The day before Halloween, the kids wore their costumes to school and had a parade on the playground. As if Halloween didn't already seem to be dragged out enough this year, but we had to deal with two days of costume wearing and junk food.
Not sure what was going on with Riley. Despite that he eagerly wore his Thomas the Train costume several times in the weeks leading up to Halloween, he refused to put it on at school and, instead, became a whiny, clingly mess. Here he is in the parade with one of the teaching assistants, Miss Kathy.
If you only knew how many times that day I had to tell someone to not walk around with a bucket on their head:
Finally ... the big night. It didn't help that it was a slow Saturday and BEFORE we turned our clocks for the end of Daylight Savings Time. It seemed like sunset would NEVER come. We actually began trick-or-treating with some friends just as the sun was going down - we couldn't hold 'em off any longer. Luckily, Riley was more game about his costume. No kid's gonna get candy wearing only schleppy jeans and a T-shirt, we told him.
Not sure who won this staring contest:
We learned from past mistakes and held off on carving the pumpkins until two days before Halloween. In past years, we eagerly dove in, and ended up with a mushy orange-and-green mess come Oct. 31.
The day before Halloween, the kids wore their costumes to school and had a parade on the playground. As if Halloween didn't already seem to be dragged out enough this year, but we had to deal with two days of costume wearing and junk food.
Not sure what was going on with Riley. Despite that he eagerly wore his Thomas the Train costume several times in the weeks leading up to Halloween, he refused to put it on at school and, instead, became a whiny, clingly mess. Here he is in the parade with one of the teaching assistants, Miss Kathy.
If you only knew how many times that day I had to tell someone to not walk around with a bucket on their head:
Finally ... the big night. It didn't help that it was a slow Saturday and BEFORE we turned our clocks for the end of Daylight Savings Time. It seemed like sunset would NEVER come. We actually began trick-or-treating with some friends just as the sun was going down - we couldn't hold 'em off any longer. Luckily, Riley was more game about his costume. No kid's gonna get candy wearing only schleppy jeans and a T-shirt, we told him.
Not sure who won this staring contest:
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