Halloween 2011

The boys dressed up as Alvin & the Chipmunks this year for Halloween. Actually, they all had multiple costumes, but this was the real deal, for the real event.

Let's just be really clear too - getting that photo was no easy feat. Also, not the easiest task, stuffing plump baby feet in to high tops. After 500 snaps and a lollipop bribery though. Success! AQ, baby, you need to get those thighs under control. Or not, because I love how the chub rolls over your knees. Cankles were so 2010. The whole thigh-swallowing-your-knee thing...now THAT IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT. You are obviously very fashion forward.

In some delusion I believed Max would be our best candidate for Simon and wearing those adorable little glasses. Delusion indeed. Daddy to the resuce though; Michael had the genius idea of drawing the glasses on him with makeup or a marker (I already forgot what we used) truly genius! Well, genius until 8:15 the next morning when rushing out the door for preschool, realizing "Oh snap, that marker may or may not have been so washable". CRAYOLA LIES!

Mason as usual loved Halloween. He bossed us all around about which house we needed to go to next and which side of the road we should be walking on. He threw around some stranger danger rules, insisted on carrying the flashlight, and in all his four year old glory he refused to carry his candy bag about three houses in to the night.

Anyone that has met Max knows this kid has a sweet tooth that would put Willy Wonka to shame. Seriously. He's been known to eat THROUGH a wrapper to get to the candy. That really happened last Halloween. Twice. Needless to say he was ENTHRALLED at the idea of people just giving him candy, without even throwing a fit? At a few houses, people sat there with an entire cauldron filled with sugary goodness. At those house, Max kind of camped out on their doorstep, plunging his hand in to the bucket repeatedly. He'd look up with his big ole black eyes, flash his dimples and load his bag up a little fuller. His bag was double the weight of Mason's by the end of the night. That kid knows how to work it.

I said this last year too, but I'm pretty sure this was the last year I'll get to convince them to coordinate costumes. Or have any say whatsoever for Mason (well maybe) and Max (definitely not). I have visions of next Halloween including crazy one piece Transformer costumes. Oh, wait. That totally happened this year against every wish I'd ever had, I let my kid wear one of those costumes. Never say never right? I've totally got this whole "pick your battles" thing down these days.

We need to work on the "thank you's" for next year. And probably teaching Max that you can't just walk in some strangers house, especially if they are offering you candy.

And you better believe I had my fair share of those candy bags (that still need to be thrown away).

itty bitty & his spider

The other day we were decorating for Halloween and I snapped some pictures of Mason with his favorite piece of decor - the hairy spider. As I was going through them, uploading and weeding out all the bloopers I felt nostalgic. It was like deja vu. I kept thinking I don't know where or when, but I know I've seen this picture.


I shuffled through my memory files in my brain and couldn't pull out the file I was dreaming of. I blew it off maybe I'm crazy. Then a few days later I was browsing old pictures on my laptop, being nostalgic again. Ah ha! I might be crazy but I'm not that crazy.



Ok, so it's not exactly the same picture. But these are both mister Mase (duh, right?) with his furry friend this year AND here he is with his furry (not so much friend) on his very first Halloween. I mean seriously is this even the same kid? It's hard to believe it, but it is. I mean look at those thighs and those round, rosy little cheeks, even his pissed off grimace is adorable. Three whole years later he still has those rosy cheeks and soft skin. And as the photographs will prove, he is much more enthusiastic about Halloween this year. It's also hard to fathom that this will be his FOURTH Halloween. I'm really bad at math and yes, he's not four, but this Sunday we will be celebrating #4, promise.

Just a little blast from the past of the itsy bitsy (er, once upon an itty bitty) spider.

those halloween pics.

finally, huh? sorry we've had a said case of the h1n1 flu. my poor two year old lost all of his spunk and actually relaxed but sadly not by choice it was all out of lethargy! whatever it's only a week later. anyway enough enough. here's the trick or treat pics!

numero uno m with mama and daddy. just like ole times.

disclaimer: we didn't purposefully leave max out, he chose sleep over his loved ones, so maybe he didn't just inherit my cheeks ;)

ooh the anticipation.better yet, the jerks who turn their lights off before its even dark and don't get ANY candy. c'mon ppl go to valero and buy some tic tacs atleast. ok, maybe not but seriously it's halloween they start putting out decorations at target months in advance, allegedly.

adjusting his costume to perfection. what a people pleaser.
trick or treating is hard work.and maybe we're out of shape.

i hope your halloween was fun. ours was perfect. even mama and daddy got a night out and of course we dressed up. duh, who doesn't get in to halloween when they grow up? wait, that's not normal? pshhh.that's right, daddy m spray painted his hair gold. all for mama!

it's beginning to look a lot like..

halloween. duh. the best holiday on the map. or calendar i suppose. in fact, if i was mayan or whatever, i would've put halloween every month. atleast once. dressing up is fun. candy is more fun. and on halloween i'll say it's funner. because it's halloween. and it's my blog. and i can. halloween is funner than christmas. speaking of christmas, way to jump the gun target...it's not even november. who needs the premature anxiety attack about relative gift shopping? not me. thanks. midterms were enough.

halloween. halloween. halloween.

treats. treats. treats.costumes. costumes. costumes.

spooks. creepy crawlies. bats.

BOO.
Get ready people. Stock your candy bowls and decorate for the excited trick or treaters.
It's almost Halloweenie!