October Part 2

Presenting form the Star Wars Saga: Princess Leia, Luke SkyWalker and Darth Vader. The Irony is that Andrew, the youngest kid, is supposed to be Julia and Josh’s dad.

Halloween was on Monday this year and some people “us” started celebrating since Friday.

Friday October 28

First we had a Halloween party at grandma and grandpa Smith’s ward. They had several games that the kids could play. Grandma Smith was in charge of Bingo that night.

Josh’s favorite game of the night was musical chairs. He won 2 treats on that game and I think if it was up to him he would have gone around on circles the entire night to get more prizes.

Julia was anxious to play the donut on a string game; this one is still one of her favorite games for 3 years in a row.



Andrew was happy as long as there was candy involved. Here he is using the FORCE to open up his candy

 
Saturday October 29
I received an invitation from Ace for a trick or treat event at their store and since I was in need of some paint we made this our first stop.  Julia met a little friend from school there and they asked for candy together.
After Ace we headed to ToysRus for our traditional Halloween parade with Jeffrey the giraffe. They gave the kids Lego's, stickers, cars2 memory game and Dora coloring books not to mention some cute Halloween bags to go trick or treating with.

Syracuse city was having a Halloween celebration that evening with vendors, free inflatable toys for the kids and pie eating contests. We didn’t eat the pie but the kids got to have fun on the big bouncy slide and bouncy castle
After the fun all the kids got to parade around on their costumes and then the city did a truck or treat. We all had fun and ended our Saturday at home with pizza and bread sticks.



Sunday October 30th

A couple of days prior we were driving by a house that had some mummies on the front yard. Julia turned to Spencer and I and said “look they have moms in their yard”. My sweet girl thought those were moms wrapped in bandages. So on Sunday for lunch I made mummy hot dogs, mainly to see her reaction. Let’s just say she was shocked to discover what mummies really were

For dinner that night I made pumpkin brains and vampire blood with bugs. Josh was reluctant to touch his dinner; he second guessed himself a lot until he finally had a bite of the food and told me: “mommy you are silly this is not blood”

I don’t want to forget how silly these kids can be. Last year Julia called scarecrows happy crows because they had happy faces. This year is the mummies and josh has actually asked me if the Holy Ghost is going to come on Halloween.

Later on that night for family night we carved our pumpkins. Josh wanted a scary face, Andrew wanted a smiley face (no choice) and Julia really wanted a Rapunzel’s pumpkin so her mom slaved trying to get that darn thing done. I don’t think you could tell I made Rapunzel but she was happy with it

Monday October 31st a.k.a “the big day”

Besides being Halloween it was Julia’s first field trip in kindergarten. We usually go to school at noon, but today she had to be in the school by 8:30.

She has day dream about the day when she got to drive the big yellow school bus and today was her lucky day, forget going to the pumpkin patch at Black Island Farms, riding the bus is way more exciting.

The first thing she told me when she got out of the bus was: mommy the bus didn't have seat belts

Halloween!

Our first stop for trick or treating that day was great-grandma James’s house. The housing community where she lives was having a Halloween party. They had games, a spook alley and the kids got to trick or treat at every one’s apartments.

After that we stopped at Matt and Brook’s house for some rest and to have a little play time with keldrie.

Next stop of the day was grandma and Grandpa Smith’s house. The kids visited for a second and got a big chocolate bar with nuts which made it Spencer proof.

I needed to run to the mall before heading home. When we got there people kept asking us if we wanted some candy, so we decided to go trick or treating at all the stores.

We were there for 30 minutes and got so much candy!

On our way home we stopped at the kids favorite hunted houses. It is not the same driving around and seeing these houses. So here they are

Josh’s choice:

Julia's choice:

We had a great time. I loved seeing the different expressions on the kid’s faces throughout that night.  They were a bit nervous at first but then they got courage to go ask for candy and oh they were so proud of themselves. 

After dinner, Spencer took on the trick or treating duties. He took the kids around the neighborhood

I was sad at first to be left behind with Andrew, but then I realized how tired I already was and just enjoyed my time with A.D.

This was the time for just the two of us. We sat on our front steps and waited for kids to come get candy. I did 2 groups and Andrew decided that he needed to take over.

It was so cute to see my baby giving these big kids candy. The funniest thing about this was that Andrew actually try to talk and do body gestures to kids. I promise it almost look like he was asking them if they wanted some candy, because as soon as the kid say thank you to him, he would place the candy on their bags.

So Halloween was the best way to close the month of October. Between the three of them they managed to get enough candy to last us through Easter next year.