halloween

both kids took a long, late nap on halloween and most of their friends had already been by the house trick-or-treating while they were still asleep! i finally woke them both up around 5:45 because we wanted them to eat dinner before heading out with daddy around the neighborhood. surprisingly they both took the time to eat without complaining even as kids kept coming to the door every couple of minutes. it wasn't super warm so i got out hats for both kids. unfortunately, mason wasn't interested in wearing his but madelyn wanted to add a scarf to her look instead of a jacket.

daddy took jackets for both kids anyway because it was 45 degrees and falling when they headed out in the wagon. it occurred to me that i have never taken the kids trick-or-treating, maybe next year i will let matt stay home. poor guy; i stayed home and watched the end of the chargers game while he headed out with the kids.

matt wasn't able to get any pictures or video this year but he did report that by the end mason was getting out of the wagon faster than madelyn and heading for the front door to claim his 'treat'. we haven't let him eat anything more than animal cookies but he doesn't seem to mind. he just had fun seeing that people would give him things to put in his pumpkin.

we only got one large bag of candy at sams because we always have lots left over. not this year! we had a ton of trick-or-treaters and i was afraid that i was going to run out of candy. i think we had 6 tootsie rolls left at the end of the night.

i normally do the pumpkin carving but didn't feel like i could handle doing so this year - at least not comfortably. instead i took madelyn to a pumpkin decorating event at michael's craft store. i just had to buy the pumpkin for $5 and they took care of the rest. madelyn had wanted it to be glittery but the girl doing the craft had her hands full with two sisters who were extremely demanding. in the end madelyn was very pleased with her 'bat' pumpkin. apparently the purple dot on the forehead is another eye. i didn't make her stop painting either, that is just all she wanted to do. i think that her favorite part was hot gluing the feathers on the top because that is what she told daddy about first when she showed it to him.

and that was our halloween in a nutshell. love.