Halloween Week

Happy Halloween!

Let me just say how much more fun the holidays are when there is a kid around!  And, that goes for all kids, whether related or not, they just make it so much more exciting!  I can only imagine how fun holidays will be for us when Xavier starts talking and really understanding what's going on!

This week, we introduced a few spooky snacks to Xavier, scary ghosts!

Our Trick-or-Treat night was on Thursday.  We had great weather this year, just a little cool, but no rain like last year!  I always enjoy interacting with the little kids.  I was looking forward to a kid topping last year's "Do you have any candy that doesn't have red dye?  I'm allergic to red dye."  Haha!  There were some memorable kids this year.  The kid dressed up as a Minecraft spider princess was really cool!  It was a handmade costume with flashing lights in the headpiece.  I've never been spooked by a trick-or-treater until this year when a kid rang the doorbell, hid behind our porch, and jumped out to SCARE THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME!  I wanted to say to him, "Hey there trick-or-treater.  You're lucky I'm giving you candy."  And then there was the kid who dressed up to take Unicef donations.  I didn't realize there were eight-year-olds out there who were so passionate about giving!  Good for them!

We passed candy out of a witches cauldron that I've been using for several years now.  The Kit-Kat's disappeared in a hot second.  The Reese Cup pumpkins were another big hit.

And then, there were the costumes.

Lions, Tigers, and Bears, OH MY!!!

When Xavier got close to my nose, he always reached out his finger to touch it!

We I had the most fun with these costumes!  I wanted to do a fun family costume and this one was perfect.  When I told Steve we were doing a family costume, it wasn't the best received news, but dropping the fact all he had to wear was a t-shirt, that I picked out and bought for him, he was all good!  When I saw that mane on Xavier's lion costume, I couldn't wait to get it on him.  Seeing him bopping around in that thing was a hilarious sight!  He's going to wear it all weekend, for sure :)

"Hi there trick-or-treaters.  Let me get the door for you."

While I passed out candy to the kids, Xavier snuck by me and crawled outside, and threw a fit when I wouldn't let him outside.  He badly wanted to escape, so we grabbed his bucket and let him lead the way.  He crawled down our driveway, across the street and up the neighbor's drive.

It was cute watching him grab candy and put it in his bucket!  I'm obssessed with those old-school plastic, orange pumpkin treat buckets.  Xavier carried one this year, just like the one I had when I was a kid.

 Although he didn't understand how to give kids the candy, he sure understood how to take it out of their buckets and put it into his!

Ok, tomorrow is the first of November, i.e. time to get started on Christmas shopping.  Tonight, I asked Steve, "Do you want to get matching..." before he cut me off with a "Uhhh, this oughta be good.  Not unless it's matching champagne flutes, Gucci shoes."  I wanted to get matching Christmas pajamas for the whole family.  He knows me all too well :)