Here are some cute pictures of Kate and Noah playing on our pumpkin. Noah was determined to carry it off somewhere, but he never got it off the ground.
Zoe went over to Lauren's house after school for a Halloween party. They spent most of the time playing outside on the hay bales. The hit of the party was when Lauren's mom snuck outside while the girls were in the woods and she scared them with a loud growl. They went inside and frosted cookies and played sisters where each one of them had a special talent. Zoe could play the flute. Zoe wore her chinese ninja costume to this party and to the party at church.
We had our annual Halloween party at church in the evening. We ate pizza, the kids played games and won many prizes, and the favorite event of the evening was going around to collect candy! The kids had to cooperate for a group picture while the parents who were passing out candy got ready.
Eleanor and Kate decided that they wanted to be princesses like Emily instead of a witch and Minnie Mouse. So, Kate put a church dress on and with some ribbon in her hair, she was a princess. Eleanor wore her witch dress with ribbons in her hair. Zach went as a firefighter, and Noah was a teddy bear. I'm sad that this is the last year that one of our kids will wear this teddy bear costume!
Matching teddy bears...
Kai and Koa were firefighters, too!
Here's Eleanor playing Pin the Nose on the Pumpkin...
The kids had so much fun at the party!
Saturday, October 31st: Halloween started out with pumpkin carving!
Noah watched...
Where's Kate?
Here's another pose since I didn't capture her necklace (that is really Zoe's necklace from Lauren's party) in the previous picture.
Kate decided to come help with the pumpkin.
Which caused these outbursts...
"People, you in my way!" (Kate)
"Mom, Kate's hogging the pumpkin! Why did you bring her in here?!" (Zoe)
Each of the kids picked a shape or design to put on their spot of the pumpkin. Kate wanted a star, so I carved a star for her.
I carved a heart for Zach.
Eleanor and I carved BOO! in her spot.
Eleanor told me that she is going to have a Halloween party when she is a mom and they're going to carve pumpkins!
I drew a ghost shape for Emily and then she carved it out.
Zoe carved out an H for Halloween and then I added shapes around it.
We went to Daisy and Anna's Halloween party in the afternoon. Kate wrestled with Noah to get his hat on.
Zoe decided to wear the Indian costume to the party. Zach wore the knight costume.
Eleanor cried because I insisted that the kids wear a long sleeve shirt under their costumes for the outside party. She refused to put her costume on, so I carried her out to the car and brought her costume to put on later. We went through the whole tantrum for nothing because the party ended up being inside.
The kids painted when we first got there.
It stressed me out to have Kate painting in a costume that isn't ours, but we managed to keep her costume clean.
The kids got their faces painted and some of them ate donuts hanging from a string. They looked for fake spiders outside and they played some other games. We ended the party with a parade around the block. Noah waved to the cars passing by, which was so cute! Here is Kate walking in her cute dragon costume.
The kids got some fun things in their goodie bags.
Eleanor let me know that trick or treating is kind of boring. You just walk around and get candy. It's not much fun. Then she said that it will be really boring when she is a mom and she just walks around and waits. Then she won't get any candy!
We went to the mall for trick or treating! Are we ready?!
We have always arrived at the mall at 5pm, which is right when the trick or treating begins. We did the same this year. The trick or treating started at 4pm this year. There was very little candy to be found around the mall, which was a huge disappointment! The kids did get a sampling of ice cream at one of the stores.
Eleanor decided to be a cat for trick or treating, so we had some last minute gluing of her ears onto a headband...that she didn't wear very much.
Zoe decided to be a witch trick or treating.
Emily and Noah were the only 2 that wore the same costume for all parties and trick or treating.
My parents came trick or treating with us.
Since the mall was such a disappointment, my mom and I took the kids to a party at our local fire station. We got there around 6:45 and left at 8:00. The kids had a great time playing games and eating. The older girls met up with friends there. It was a good ending to our Halloween weekend!
We hope you had a fun Halloween!
P.S. This is so Eleanor...
...writing until she couldn't keep her eyes open any longer.
3 comments:
It's a good thing everyone gained an hour!
Could you please send me your phone number by e-mail (dawn.carlson@colostate.edu) - just in case!
Also, let me know again the name of the place we're meeting for lunch and what time works for you - looking so forward to this trip!
I miss those little monkeys! Eleanor looks a little like Belinda Carlisle in that black turtleneck (or whatever) with the cat costume.
I miss you!
Oh my goodness, so many cute pictures! So many parties! So many costume changes! Noah is a darling teddy bear. I love them all.
Matt says in Maine it is called "Halloweek" - I believe it (well not really, but I mean it's true). I'm glad the kids had so much fun. Only a few more days until your husband comes back :)
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