Halloween!

We were a little slow with our Halloween prep this year. We went to the pumpkin patch last Sunday, the kids painted their small pumpkins that day but they weren't carved until Halloween day. The kids LOVED painting the pumpkins! Can you figure out which plate belonged to which child?


The top one was Kayda's and the bottom one was Dillon's. I thought it was funny that the older child had the plate with the paints mixed together the most.

Kayda and Dillon both enjoyed pumpkin carving. They weren't very keen on the goo inside. It's funny for Kayda because her first Halloween she was orange because she was playing with it so much. Dillon was never into it. When Daddy was cutting the face, Kayda decided she should have a knife too, she went and got a butterknife out of the drawer and tried to cut the lid of the pumpkin. They helped us choose what the pumpkins should look like and even helped carve a little by putting their hands on top of ours and "helping" us cut.

After we finished carving they got to paint all the pumpkins some more.

Time to go trick or treating! Kayda would NOT take off her pretty dress at the end of the day. Dillon had fun with the "paws" but got tired of it after a while.

First stop Grandma and Grandpa G's.

They weren't answering the door fast enough to Kayda tried to open it, it was locked.

Each kid took one candy, Grandpa told them that they could have another one. It was pretty funny because each of them grabbed another one and then immediately reached for a third and so on.

Next we headed to Baba's. Baba is their great grandma. She recently had back surgery and is having a hard time moving around but NOTHING could stop her from seeing her great grandbabies. She adores them and they adore her, Kayda always gets excited when we're going to see Baba.

Third stop, Grandma and Grandpa H's. Unfortunately I realized that in the chaos that is the cousins' reunion we forgot to get a picture with Grandma and Grandpa H. But here are the pictures of the cousins that were at their house. Peyton and Mikey are missing because they hadn't come over yet.

They were having a great time spinning the chair around.

Finally we went to Jamie's and then headed home. Sadly, by that time Kayda just wanted to be home. We tried to take her trick or treating in our cul-de-sac, she rode her trike and Dillon rode his little car. She did fine until they were going to cross the cul-de-sac, she kept saying "car coming" and she KNOWS she is NOT to be in the street if a car comes, she bring her trike to the side and waits. Dillon is still learning but he does very well also. There wasn't actually a car coming so Daddy took them across the street and she fell apart, she got SO upset that we had to go home. As soon as we walked in the door she was fine. It was sad that it was cut short but I must say I am extremely happy that she knows that "car coming" means she better not be in the road.