The Murrays: "Ween!!"

We had a great time during the Halloween season this year (or "Ween" as Ian calls it). Ian was soooo excited by everything! He loves to point out all the pumpkins on people's porches and he's very into all the ghosts and spiders and bats....and candy of course! His favorite are the pumpkins though. He wants to carry the big ones on our porch around but they are too heavy for him so luckily Grandma and Grandpa Murray sent a Halloween package and in it was a cool fake pumpkin that's lightweight. This pumpkin was originally placed in our downstairs bathroom next to a scarecrow but since it's able to be carried around, Ian takes it on adventures. It usually just ends up on the couch in the living room or in the middle of the dining room floor but here are a couple of the more interesting places I've found it:

One of the outdoor shopping centers in the area had a trick-or-treat night last weekend where all the stores gave out candy so that got our huge pile of candy started. And then our neighborhood had it's trick-or-treat night on Friday. Since Ian is so in to pumpkins it seemed only fitting that that's what he dress up as. And my mom wanted to make Alexis a costume so she got some cute patterns and we decided that a candy corn would go perfectly with a pumpkin. So here are the kids in their costumes:

On Friday, my mom took the kids around the neighborhood while I manned the candy at our house. Alexis had fun riding around in the wagon and Ian was the one who got out to go up to the house and get candy. The only problem was that at each house he thought it was necessary to eat the candy as soon as he got it. My mom had to convince him each time that it went in the bag and we'd sort it all out and eat some when we got back home. He apparently did pretty well with saying "trick-or-treat" though. At first my mom would ask him, "What are you supposed to say?" when he got up to the house and his response was, "Please." Hmm...well at least he has manners. But then he got the hang of at least saying, "Treat!" Close enough. I'm just surprised that they both spent over 3 hours in the costumes without wanting to get out of them.

I also had some fun trying to squeeze the kids into their costumes from last year. They were just so cute so I had to try. Alexis was just slightly too big for the peapod...she was only 5 days old when she wore it last year! But it was hilarious to see her in it again and she seemed to think it was funny too, surprisingly.

Ian's fit a little better since it was slightly big on him last year and the fit of it made it easy to get in to. So, he actually went to daycare on Friday as Donald Duck. I didn't want to send him in his pumpkin outfit in case it got really messy so this worked out perfectly. I'm glad we at least got one more use out of it.