Halloween 2010

Mason's first candy ever-STICKY

The sweetest scary shark I've ever seen

Great Grandma with all five of the Great-Grandkids...I don't know who liked dressing up more, the kids or Grandma!

That's one way to take a picture with the pumpkin Mason

Checking out what's inside the pumpkins we grew

Waving like a champ at the Hallowen parade with his friend Nidhi

Well Halloween has come and gone, and here we are left with a pile of candy and some great pictures. We started off the weekend with a Halloween parade at Riley's school. They practiced all week walking around the playground (the parade route) and waving. Riley ran right over to John and I when he saw us, but promptly went back to the parade lineup and walked around and waved and smiled the whole time-I wish I had brought my video camera!!! He was way too cute!

We carved pumpkins on Saturday which was interesting. The boys wanted to pick the seeds out of the pumpkins one at a time-and John had high hopes and cut the tops off of FOUR pumpkins!!!! It was a long process, but the boys had fun and they turned out great.

Then on Halloween we visited family with John's sisters. It was so much fun to see our niece and nephews and to have all the kids together, even if for a short time. Finally the big moment came and we hit the streets for trick-or-treating. We went to a grand total of six houses! Riley did a great job saying "trick or treat Happy Halloween". The boys each opened a tootside pop when we were almost done. It was of course getting close to bed time at this point so we told them that they could have them for ten minutes, then told them we had to wrap them up and save them for later (which they did without so much as a fuss-yes you don't have to tell us-we're mean and we know it). Of course, first thing the next morning Ri asked if he could have his for breakfast! I told him that he could have it after dinner-and we of course did-sticky night #2.

One of the Mason's favorite things over the Halloween weekend was saying "Boo" to Daddy-it turned into quite the game (with Mason laughing so hard at times that the "boo" was high pitched and squeaky and barely made it out of his mouth), and was a lot of fun to watch and listen to-they both had so much fun.