Halloween 2014

The weeks leading up to Halloween the kids had such a blast playing with our pumpkins.  They would rearrange them and put them in different places on our porch, bring them in the house and play with them, we played "hide the pumpkin," and Kayla liked carrying around the smaller ones. 

Measuring the pumpkins with Legos.  He also enjoyed lining them up biggest to smallest and lining them up and measuring how long they all were together.  My little math wiz kid.

 

Pumpkin Painting. 

 

We did the Pumpkin Gospel while carving pumpkins this year.  It was so much fun and Joshua really absorbed the story. 

A cute little story that happened while carving pumpkins: Kayla was sitting in Daniel's lap and at some point I said to Levi, "lets change your diaper."  Kayla immediately said, "Down" and came running over to help me change his diaper.  She hardly ever misses an opportunity to bring me a diaper.  Such a good helper. 

Daddy asked Joshua if he wanted to use the knife to help cut

it open.  Joshua's face was priceless.  He thought Daniel was joking

and couldn't get over the fact that he wasn't. 

 

 

 

We decide to forgo our traditional Harvest Fest this year and take the kiddies trick-or-treating instead.  This was their first time doing that and to say they had a blast is a huge understatement.  It was SO SO SO much fun watching them run, yes run, door to door.  Kayla would run behind Joshua cracking up the whole way while holding her little bucket.  She was almost slap happy.  She had no idea what all those treats where that people kept putting in her bucket but she sure thought it was fun.  You could just tell that she thought it was so special to be doing something like that with her big bro.  

Levi dressed up as a baby who sleeps through the night ;)

 

Originally Kayla was going to wear Joshua's old lion costume.  When we tried it on a few weeks prior she thought it was fun for the first 5 minutes and then wanted it off.  And there was no way she was going to wear the mane.  So we decided she wouldn't wear a costume.  If she doesn't care to dress up why should we care?  As Joshua was getting ready right before heading out trick-or-treating I didn't want her to feel left out so I tried a pumpkin costume that we had that used to be my sisters.  Since she got such a kick out of all our pumpkins I tried to make a big deal out of the pumpkin costume.  We even showed her how Levi's shirt had pumpkins on it.  Nope, she wasn't having it.  So off came the costume.  Who was going to question why such a cute little girl wasn't dressed up but still asking for candy? ;)

Here she is whining, "Off, off, off."  As she was trying to pull it off. 

Batman! 

 

Levi all snug and ready for trick-or-treating.  It was really cold that night.

Joshua with a neighbor friend.  He looked her up

and down and said with the most serious face, "You don't

look like "anyfing" to me."  I about died!

 

Neighborhood buddies!

"Trick-or-treat!"

Time to check out their loot. 

 

When we got home Joshua had just as much fun passing out candy.  After passing out candy to a group of kids he asked their mom, "do you got anymore kids?"  Meaning, "Are there any other kids coming?"

 

During a lull he asked Daniel, "Gosh Daddy, where are all the kids?"

 

Someone in a scream mask showed up and after they left he said to Daniel, "He didn't look like "anyfing" to me." 

 

As Daniel was getting Kayla ready for bed Joshua told me, "Daddy said I could stay up and eat treats." Uh nice try kiddo.   

 

He might not have been successful in trying to get me to let him eat more candy but I did totally get bamboozled that night.   While Joshua was suppose to be getting his pj's on he told me, "Mommy, let's snuggle."  So of course I dropped what I was doing to snuggle my boy.  Then I realized, "wait a minute, he is trying to delay his bed time." 

 

What a fun, fun time we had.