Happy Halloween!

It was fun celebrating Halloween this year. Caiden was so into everything from pumpkins to his costume to trick or treating! We started last weekend with carving pumpkins. Which in hindsight was a bit too early because a few days before Halloween the detailed work of George and Woody were falling apart.

Caiden did not enjoy pulling the guts out by hand but he definitely wanted in on the action of using the spoon to get it out. "It's my turn now, It's my turn now!"

When Marc started cutting into the stencil we had on the pumpkin of Georges face Caiden yelled, "NOOOOO, HIS FACE!!!!". He had to stop and explain what was going to happen. So friggin cute.

We also painted a pumpkin teal and bought non-food treats for handing out on Halloween for the Teal Pumpkin Project. It's something that FARE (Food Allergy Research & Education) created a few years back to support kids with food allergies on Halloween. Place a teal pumpkin at your door to indicate that you'll have toys as well as candy to give to kids who have food allergies. Caiden was really excited to have a blue pumpkin and he also knew what it represented. Such a great project and we will be sure to do it every year!

We did a test run of Grace's outfit on Thursday before we went to Marc's office for a pre-trick or treat bash. She was not a fan of the entire outfit. She cried for about 5 minutes until she finally got used to it.

They had a lady making balloon art and Caiden asked for a fishing pole with a fish on the end.

Halloween on a Saturday was so much fun! We tried getting a couple family photos but this is the best we got. Grace is a swan ferry, I'm a mermaid, Caiden is Curious George and Marc is the Man in the Yellow Hat. Caiden loved his and Marc's costume and was telling everyone he was George when they asked what his name was and always told them that his Dad was the Man in the Yellow Hat. His teachers at school even told me that he was talking a lot about their costumes.

So I had no costume planned for myself until about three hours before when Sara called and said she's going to be a mermaid. I said great -add me to your list of make-up and bring me an outfit! Thank you, Sis!

 Our neighbors had their annual Halloween party so we went to their house after getting ready and ate and hung out. When it got dark we started down the street. There were so many people out and about it's just so much fun. Caiden had a blast. After every house he'd say, "I want to go to the next house, too!". He even started cutting across the lawns at the end once he had the hang of it. He loved all the decorations and would always take the time to point them out.

I think this was the last house we went to and we let Grace out of the car we were pushing her in -she knew exactly what to do!

When we got home Caiden did what every single kid does on Halloween and I remember so vividly (and we didn't even have to tell him). He immediately dumped all his candy out on the floor and asked me what he can eat. I think there were three pieces that didn't have dairy or nuts in it. He ate a crap load of skittles, Mike & Ikes, sour patch kids and suckers. Needless to say he was up at 2am vomiting all over his bed. I think he ate a bit too much. Going from having a lollipop once a week to the amount of sugar he had that night was overload on his little body and it was not pretty. Lesson learned for next year. Up side -he says he doesn't want to eat any more candy because it will make his belly hurt. Happy Halloween everyone!