Halloween was so much fun this year. Between living in a place with a real autumn season and having kids old enough to understand the holiday, it was the best one yet! I set up the Halloween decoration at the end of September and when Jackson woke up and saw it all he was so excited! He had enjoyed it somewhat in the past but this year he would stare at all the pumpkins, skeletons and witches and understood it was all to get excited for Halloween at the end of the month! We got lots of Halloween books from the liberties to add to our collection of holiday books we already had. We watched Halloween specials on tv and spent the whole month thinking about the holiday! Jackson was excited to be a firefighter and to have Abbie be his fire doggy dalmation.
I had been nervous that he would end up wanting to be a different costume, he had mentioned police officer, pirate (again) and spaceman as other costume ideas. But since I had the gear for the fire fighter costume I luckily was able to steer him that way and get him excited about it.
On the actual day of Halloween this year we woke up to some pumpkin pancakes for breakfast. And since it was a Thursday (our one free weekday morning) we were able to attend a halloween play group with our church friends at the church building. Jackson had so much fun playing with his friends, making a spider craft and eating yummy food!
This was the first time I'd put on Abbie's costume again since the trunk or treat and she once again was not a fan. It made Jackson so concerned about her frustration with it all. Why was she so sad he wondered. He can normally make her happy and get her to stop caring about her clothes but it wasn't happening today. It's not like this shirt, leg warmers and skirt is so different than her normal clothes - I went with the costume that would be the most familiar to her but she had it in her mind that she didn't want to wear it and when this girl gets an idea, well there's no turning back. After a lot of wiggling and crying, eventually we got the costume on, made it to the party and she got happier when she noticed the food haha.
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| You're the best fire doggy in the world Abigail! |
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| Making a spider web! |
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| Jumping over the leaves |
We went home for lunch and naps and then we did what most people do on Halloween: met Tyler at the DMV to get our new Connecticut Licensees and Plates. We waited until the last day of the month and it probably wasn't our best idea. (Our license plates expired in October in FL, turns out it didn't matter we could have registered the next day with no penalty.) While we really did get through the lines quick, we just got stuck in awful traffic driving home and didn't get back home til around 6 pm. It was a stressful time and I was nervous we were going to miss our neighbors trick or treating. I didn't know what time our neighbors normally went out! But it was getting dark just as we got home and then we had our first trick or treaters 15 minutes later or so. We took the kids out and left a bowl of candy on the doorstep.
Of course Abbie hated the costume again but as soon as she realized she got candy, she stopped crying and wore her dalmatian ears with pride!
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| He was so excited to ring all the doorbells! |
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| She would pick the chocolates out, specifically kit kats, snickers and reeses. Smart Girl |
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| The crew! |
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| Pouring out the loot! |
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| Open this please mom! |
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| Pleeeeease |
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