Halloween 2013

 As the kids are getting older and bigger and more opinionated about their costumes, Halloween was becoming increasingly complicated and expensive. This year I bribed the two older ones to come up a costume out of something we already had. Francis wanted to be a rubix cube and in exchange, I bought him and eight dollar rubix cube. Jackson wore last year's costume and in exchange I bought him a $14 rainbow loom. I definitely came out on the winning side of that deal, since they had both been asking for $50 costumes.

Nicky wanted to be Leo the blue ninja turtle, which I actually had in my shopping cart in his size at the beginning of October and put back, thinking it would go on sale, only to spend the next three weeks frantically searching for it. After 3 trips to target and several failed attempts to order it online, we found one a size too big and decided to go with it. A lesson to all: if your child wants to be something you think may end up being popular, buy it when you see it. Otherwise you may end up with the choice of buying the wrong size or spending $100 to order it off ebay....

As for little Maggie, you can see her in the bottom picture, dressed up as one of her favorite characters, Dora the Explorer. Her costume consisted of a pink shirt she already had, orange pants from target and a Dora "backpack" toy ordered at the last minute from Amazon.

We had some friends over for dinner, trick or treated around the neighborhood, ate candy until they were nearly ill and brushed teeth and went to bed. All in all a great night!