Halloween Munchkins

Halloween was precious! Of course, we tried to cram too much into one day but that's how we roll. We had to carve FOUR pumpkins since I bought one for each of us. It took all morning. I made the kids an Elmo and a Mickey Mouse pumpkin. Brent worked on his normal artistic masterpiece which always makes me happy since he's such a Rembrandt.



He named his pumpkin "Sherlock Butt" (because he's as creative as he is artistic) but once Callie saw the pumpkin, she told us it was a bug and we went with that because that seemed cuter than the Asian looking drag queen with a bat nose. The last one was an owl which was perfect because I stole it's eyes for my Mickey Mouse ears. Since we weren't going to be home at all last night, I lit them and put them in the bathroom for the kids to see whenever they wanted. Honestly, I liked sneaking in there to look at them too and we got to enjoy them a lot longer so I might have to start doing that every year.

Then, we took the kids to the pediatrician's office to get their flu shots which was an adventure in and of itself, and came home to get dressed. Callie was a "yeyo bi-bice" (yellow princess) and Wyatt was a precious monkey (with the all-important banana). We went over to Dan and Catherine's house to party like big people while we let the kids trick-or-treat. They were all so cute but pretty skittish about walking up to strangers and getting candy. Wyatt was only interested in driving the golf cart. He did not care about the candy at all and would throw a fit every time we tried to pry him from the steering wheel. Callie wanted to be carried most of the time. The night pretty much ended for her when a motion-animated witch shook and cackled at her. She was done. They were both done. So, we loaded them up and they cried the whole way home in between shoving handfuls of smarties in their mouths.

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