Happy Halloween!

It's been a bit hectic at our house lately - which is why there are not a lot of posts recently.  I was traveling for the 5 days right before Halloween and came back to more pink eye and still sick kiddos.  I was hoping to come back to healthy house again, but no such luck. 

We were able to do the Fall Festival at the school, and the kids had a great time.  The Girlchick was an old pro, since this was her 5th one, and she knew exactly what she wanted to do.  First snow cones, then face painting, then the cookie walk.  The boys wanted to visit the animals in the petting zoo.  We tried to get them to do face painting, but didn't want to let the teacher get close enough to them to do it.  Thing 2 let them get a tiny white ball on his hand that we tried to say was a baseball.  But that was it.  They got to wear their Halloween costumes, which is nice since we get extra mileage out of them.  Makes me feel better that we spend all that money and they wear them twice instead of just once.

For actual Halloween, we let the boys go out first to the Pic's house then in our area but only for a few houses.  It was getting late for them, but they sure had the hang of it by the second stop.  Thing 2 would walk right up and take a handful of candy out of the bowls.  It was pretty funny.  Thing 1 was a little more reserved and circumspect. 

After their brief outing the boys went to bed, while Dad took out The Girlchick to do more damage.  She had a blast. 

We had Olivia, Darth Vader (Thing 2 since he is so naughty), and Yoda (Thing 1).