Halloween 2009

It's hard to believe, but we convinced Ethan to participate in the Halloween festivities this year!

Some of you might remember Ethan's experience at Halloween last year, and ever since then he has been afraid of certain things--weird lights, larger than life puppets or snowmen, jack-o-lanterns are not to be passed within ten feet. It's pretty bad. But for the past few days I've been trying to show him the fun side of Halloween. And this year there were a lot of fun stuff planned in our town.

Halloween morning I came down dressed in my "princess outfit". It's actually a bridesmaid dress from a wedding I attended several years ago. Ethan was very impressed with it. I told him it was my princess costume. He said he wanted a costume, too (a lion costume, that is). He thought being a lion was a good idea. After breakfast, we all decided to go shopping for costume and we found him none other than Thomas. It was love at first sight for him!

That afternoon we went to a princess/birthday/pumpkin (not halloween) party. All the kids were in costume and Ethan was happy to be in his costume, too! Yay! Success! Halloween is fun!


Here is Kate as a butterfly princess.

After the party we went home to eat a quick dinner and do some trick or treating for the FIRST time. I couldn't believe it! We explained to Ethan what trick or treating was, and he was definitely excited about the idea of getting treats and candy. While he wouldn't go to any houses that had jack-o-lanterns, we had plenty of houses in the neighborhood to choose from. While we were gone, Dad stayed home to finish feeding Kate her dinner. We figured she wouldn't want any candy!

After trick or treating we went to a local church's halloween event. Inflatables, games and candy for all! Ethan stayed on the inflatable slide with his friend, Asher, almost the entire time. He did, however, have some jumping time with Kate. The kids were pooped that night! Despite all that, they still woke up at their usual time and didn't take advantage of daylight savings.