Good Grief! It's been a long time since I have made a new post!!
Now, we'll remedy that problem. So much has been going on, it's crazy really how much I need to add to this blog. But we'll start small again, and give you a glimpse of our Halloween.
Alicia was a Vampiress. We bought about fifteen dollars worth of teeth (that didn't work, fit, or look right) for her before we found the ten-cent ones that we had been hoping to get to start with. Brynne was a cute little devil, which is accurate in soooooo many ways. Lizzy was all geared up to be a good witch, like Kiki of "Kiki's Delivery Service," but then switched at the last minute to a fairy princess, with a unicorn stick-pony, that she bought with her own birthday money. Good thing our dress-up box overflows with fairy attire! Kurt wore the Superman costume he did last year, with one notable difference: this year it actually fit him. I had to re-do the S-shield because it had been through the dryer one too many times, and the iron-on had melted together a bit. The felt I used to over-lay it looked really great, and I was happy with it. Don't tell anyone, but the cape he wore was lifted from his sister's Snow White costume! Lily, who is not pictured, was dressed as a little pink kitten. The majority of her costume featured a pink binky with pipe-cleaner kitty whiskers. It was really cute!!
This was our party at Aunt Amy's house with the Morgan cousins all decked out. We had a ton of fun playing games and eating a yucky lunch of Mummy Burgers, Witch's warts, Skeleton fingers, Witch's hair, and Bubbling Bat's blood.
We love dressing up and decorating for Halloween. Ty had a blast draping cobwebs all over our front porch and hanging a gigantic fake spider right in the center of it all. You can see it reflected in the front window here. Someday he wants to be able to cover the entire front of the house from the chimney on down with a web and just have an enormous spider leg coming over the top of the roof. Very Creepy! Kurt would look outside and tell me almost everyday how worried he was that the "pider" was going to eat him. He loved it!
That night we canvassed the neighborhood for two and a half hours. I got to take the kids out this year, which I've never done before. I realized at the hour-mark that it wasn't about them any more, and I was living out my childhood fantasy of having the chance to trick-or-treat at an almost endless line-up of doors. It's pretty sad when your kids start whining that they don't want any more candy and their bags are too heavy, that their feet hurt and they want to go home. Lizzy was sure that we were lost forever and that Daddy would miss us really bad!
I have to believe that if they lived in the country and had to climb in and out of a suburban, driving miles between each homestead, collecting a pitifully small amount of Halloween loot each year, they would think differently. My children's suffering was worth it! We (They) got about twelve pounds of goodies--only one of which was apples. (which everyone knows just don't count!)
My mom, who understands me completely, sent us each a gummy Creepy Crawler as our grandma treats. These three massive gummy candies were the only ones left to take a picture of the day after they arrived. Lizzy got the most disgusting one: the cockroach! *shudder* She had no problem eating it, even though it was larger than her hand. EWWW! Kurt had a centipede, which was over five inches long. I wish I had a picture of the gooey mess he made of himself as he ate it! I'm sure you can imagine. Sometimes there aren't enough wet-wipes in the world. . .
