We hope that everyone had a very happy halloween. The boys really enjoyed the day. Like last year, I undertook the job of costume designer. I think that by next year, Liam will have an opinion on his costume choice, so I wanted to take advantage of my (possible) last year to decide what they dressed up as. They were Crayola Crayons!
Let me explain. My mom made crayon costumes for my older brother and I when we were young. That was the first time that I was a crayon. The second time I was a crayon was in college. My friends and I decided to use that as a group costume. Four of us were crayons and one was a box. We were a hit. Then when Dane and I lived in Madison, one halloween, we had several friends come to visit and, once again, Crayola Crayon seemed to be a perfect idea.
This year, it was Liam and Gavin's turn. Somehow, I found a bit of time to make their costumes. Liam got to pick our their colors. Green is quickly becoming his go-to color when asked to choose. Although, he is a fan or purple, and being in the fabric store suddenly brought out his love of hot pink, in the end, he settled on green and wanted baby G to be blue. They turned out great and looked so cute!
We had a busy day that started off at daycare for a party. It was not their day to go, but I try to take them for the parties when I can. Liam enjoys it. After that, we swung by their Pediatrician's office so Gavin could get his second flu shot. (yes, children under age 9 have to get 2 injections the first season that they get the vaccine) A long nap gave me the opportunity to clean the house, do 3 loads of laundry and rake the front yard...have to capitalize on that! Then Lynn (Dane's AMAZING aunt) and McKay (that's Un Kay to Liam) came over for dinner. I have to add that the entire homemade dinner and dessert was supplied by Lynnie. Then it was time for trick-or-treating.
The boys had fun. Gavin got a VIP seat in the jogging stroller while Liam walked the streets of Hawthorne. He did really well. Wasn't quite sure what to do the first couple of houses. It was something between not being sure about talking to a whole bunch of strangers and not believing his parents are just letting him collect all of this candy. He primed his pumpkin bucket with a couple of pieces from our home supply. He then tried to use this to barter at the first house. He thought that if he took a piece from her, he should give her back a piece of his...he really put a Butterfinger in her bowl from his pumpkin. After that, it didn't take him long to catch on. In the end he made a haul and only tried to walk into 2 houses uninvited. Here are a bunch of pictures in random order:
Gavin is skyping with Gram and Papo before leaving the house
This was Dane and Liam after trick-or-treating
Gavin at the end of the night
Ok, I forgot to mention that Dane drug out our old costumes from Madison and we wore them out with the boys. It is OK to laugh. The quality of ours was not as good since they were mass produced in one afternoon. I had the luxury to take time to made the boys' look a little nicer.
Almost lost G on this one
I was so impressed he kept his hat on...didn't try to take it off
This was Liam before we left
At daycare party
This is priceless. This was at daycare when I put Liam in his costume for the first time. He was SO excited to be a green crayon.
Gavin's first Halloween!
