It started out with the Halloween Party at my 4yo's preschool [at our Church]. I am the "room mom" for her class, and I was also one of the "party moms" for this party, so I spent the morning making sandwiches shaped like pumpkins and bats and cutting grapes in half LOL! My wonderful baby sitter was able to come keep the baby, 2yo, and my 9yo while my 6yo and I went to my 4yo's preschool and did the party. It was so fun!
Then their dad came over [he took a half day off work to spend it with them]. I spent the afternoon carving pumpkins - which delighted the children! They each got to draw out the pumpkin face they wanted and then I did my best to carve their pumpkins the way they wanted them - and I did pretty well too!
Later we went over to our Church for "Trunk or Treat" - it was the first year our Church has done this and it was SO wonderful! They had lots of folks there with their trunks open giving out candy and then they had a dragon "jumpy jump" type thing there that the kids adored jumping in and they had little "hay rides", which the kids also love. THEN, they had free food - hot dogs, pretzels, pop corn, and the ever popular snow cones that my kids had a fit over! It was SO incredibly nice. Our pastor is working so hard to do good things for the families at the parish, and he is really succeeding. Praise God for a pastor who values little kids and families!
Then we came home and my sister came over.
She comes over every Halloween to take the kids Trick or Treating with me. We just go on our street usually, and usually I am kind of a "mean mom" and I only let the kids go to a handful of houses, but tonight we did it a little different. We came out and met up with our neighbor next door and his 4yo daughter and our neighbor across the street and her 4yo granddaughter and we walked the neighborhood together as a group - it was so neat.
I LOVE our neighborhood. We know all our neighbors and are very friendly with them. It was so neat to Trick or Treat together in one big group. We just have the nicest people in our little subdivision - I really treasure it. It feels like we live in a sweet little place you would expect to find back in the 1950s, and I feel so Blessed to be here!
So, we ended up walking through half the subdivision and the kids came home with massive amounts of candy and treats [and each got a toothbrush too from one lady - who I thought was a genius! LOL!].
My mom decided to buy them costumes this year [we are big on dressing up, but not big on spending much money on dressing up so this was a first for them!] The costumes turned out to be really high quality and very nice. Then my MIL decided to buy them all the accessories that went WITH their costumes - so they had a small fortune spent on these costumes! The kids were thrilled of course.
My 9yo dressed as a Gypsy. She was so pretty!
My 6yo dressed as Spiderman. He really liked that the costume had muscles built in, and I must admit he did look freakishly like Spiderman!
My 4yo dressed as "The Little Mermaid" and she was adorable. She kept running ahead during our Trick or Treat expedition though and I got really afraid she wouldn't live through the night! :(
My 2yo dressed as "Little Red Riding Hood" and it was *so* cute - she really "got it" this year and was so fascinated by the idea of people giving her candy. [You gotta understand, we don't 'do' candy in our family - Halloween is the one time of year where they are allowed to get candy and eat it!] She would walk up to the door and say "Trick or Treat" and then if the other kids got ahead of her, she would hold up her Little Red Riding Hood basket and say "I have a basket too!". LOL!
The baby monkey had a lamb costume - full body fleece type stuff. It was really warm tonight, so she ended up wearing her lamb's hood and that's about it. It was still so stinkin cute it was ridiculous! She enjoyed trick or treating in my backpack! She nodded off at one point, but enjoyed the rest of the evening.
Anyway, it was a GREAT day, and I hope you all had wonderful days as well! We are all looking forward to All Saints Day tomorrow!
3 comments:
Speaking of your neighborhood..I noticed that your neighbor has The Sacred Heart statue in her yard! How cool is that! I think there is one St. Francis in our neighborhood
Keep flaunting the BVMs and the other fabulous statuary. I wish I lived in a neighborhood that allowed me to do that. (Darn Homeowners association...)
The kids are precious!
You do have a Great neighborhood! And your parish is on top of things. Last night the 7 yr old and I went to vigil mass. CCD is ussually on Wed. nights. Sister, the religious ed director, had the ccd classes required to go dressed as their favorite or most special saint. Sister went as Dorthy Day. Even some of the CCD teachers dresesed up too! My husband threatend that he would go as St. Sebastian. No bounce house, no trunck or treat. We weren't on top of things, but the Methodists across the street were...
God Bless and Happy All Saints Day.
You are such a fun mom! :) It's so evident how much you enjoy your kids.
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