happy halloween! we had a week full of celebrating...and a month of planning costumes...planning is half the fun.
max wanted to be a blue dog. he was so easy to please, except when i gave him whiskers...he looked at himself, and with scrunched eyebrows said, "no, cat."
kai wanted to be a ghost with two circle eyes and a surprised mouth. very specific. he was thrilled with his costume, even though i had to make minor adjustments because i orginally made it too pointy on top--at the ward trunk-r-treat he looked slightly kkk-ish instead of innocent, surprised ghost-ish.we were driving in the car a few days before halloween...kai was talking about his costume and said, "i decided i want to use a sleeping bag." i told him that might not look too much like a ghost. he started laughing and said, "not for my costume! for my candy!" i love the image of kai dragging a sleeping bag to each house. he meant pillow case, which he used--and it was as big as him.
abe was a vampire. after we painted his face he said, "perfect. much creepier than i expected."
sadie and her friends have been planning for weeks to be eighties chicks. they looked great! we went to a friend's house for dinner and then we split into age groups for trick or treating. sadie and her friends went out twice and came back with loads!abe had a fun time with his friends, but shockingly was the first to turn in. max and kai were with me and a few little friends. they were troopers.
kai was on a serious mission, definitely the leader of the pack-- running. max kept up....until he fell asleep on my shoulder.
today, max carries his pumpkin like it is sooo heavy and says, "too much candy." --but reassures me by saying, "me do this." and carries it with both hands. fun times.
P.S. one of our favorite things about flagstaff is the diversity our kids experience. abe has a few good friends who are jehovah witness and we have had some casual conversations about how they don't celebrate halloween. kai must have picked up on this and as i was driving i heard kai and max having a discussion in the back seat...it went something like this: kai--(pointing to a house with no halloween decorations) "oh yeah, they are definitely jehovas witness" next house, "pretty sure that house, they are probably jehovas witness...and my swimming teacher, she is DEFINITELY a jehovas witness, she hasn't said ANYTHING about halloween."
listening to this DEFINITELY made me smile.
