Halloween Fun!

It finally arrived! It was such a busy week, the kids even got to wear their costumes to school this year! It was great to have my mom in town too, because I got to go hang out in Brooklyn's classroom while they did pumpkin experiments! They got to "hypothesize" about how much their pumpkins weighed, how many seeds they contained, and if they would float or not! It was fun to see what their original guesses were! Brooklyn's pumpkin weighed 8lbs and had over 1200 seeds! Oh yeah...and they all floated...in case anyone was confused about that one!

School ended...the kids had enough cake and cookies to burn through about 50 neighborhoods, and were all sent home to finish their buzz! After seeing what her 3rd grade teacher goes through everyday...with 29 kids...wow! It totally made my 5 look like angels!
Trick or Treating Fun! My mom, me, and the older 4 kids all went out first, just around the block, to get some candy...we ended up being with a group of kids that had a "black spider man" costume. I think it's the bad guy from the last one...well Madison would not go trick or treating with him! So we had to wait until all the kids had run off to the next house before she'd go up! She would just keep yelling, "I no likee pider man, scare me!" It was funny at first...but then as we had to hang back...it just got annoying. I have the most pictures of her...because I was the one with the camera...and we were way behind everyone else!
Sorry, Seattle didn't score any candy this year. We stand out by the curb. I'm not a parent that can wheel my baby around trick or treating, and pretend the candy's for them! (I just can't do it!) More power to those of you who do have enough guts to do this though! I'm sure you could score a lot of candy...who would turn you down? In fact, as long as your baby's in a costume... you can come to my house and not be judged! I really do like seeing their cute costumes, and the trouble you go through to dress them up, deserves an extra handful of candy!


A group of teenage girls drove by in the back of a truck and yelled out that she was soo cute and pretty. Madison immediately got a huge smile and said, "I pretty mommy!" I have to admit...it was freaking cute!
Madison thought the saying was "pick a treat"...it's actually easy to see how she got confused.
When we got back, Phil took the older 3 out a bit further to score some more candy, while we went home and raided Madison's candy! She really dug the suckers! We had so many "trick or treaters" this year, we totally ran out of candy by 8! That's never happened before. We even buy way more than needed every year so we can eat it afterwards! I guess we'll have to eat the kids' candy this year!

There are 5 suckers here!
This is as they came back...what a sight! It brings back memories of when we were young! My dad would always be sporting one of us kids on his shoulders! (I was always embarrassed!)