Halloween

What would Halloween be without a million pictures?  Thankfully I took roughly 3/4 of a million over the weekend because by the time we were ready last night it was dark and the kids were occupied.

Nicholas was Darth Vader and he and I made his light saber out of a wrapping paper tube.

He painted the "handle" black and we wrapped the rest in tissue paper.  We then had to make another one because he of course broke his by hitting things on the second of our three-day Halloween.

Lizzie was a butterfly, Cinderella, a butterfly, and a kangaroo.  She picked out the butterfly costume in the store and I rejected it as not practical for New England and so made her pick one of the full body animal costumes.  She chose the kangaroo and seemed excited about it (mostly because of the baby joey) but then kept talking about being a butterfly so I caved and went back and bough the butterfly as well.

So the butterfly was her "real" costume and what she wore for our Halloween photo shoot with friends, as well as for trick-or-treating at school.

And the kangaroo was what she wore for nighttime trick-or-treating in the cold.

And Cinderella was a dress-up dress she has from the summer that she put on for pictures with her pumpkin because she had chosen Cinderella's carriage for her pumpkin and Nicholas had chosen Darth Vader for his and they both had those outfits so of course I needed the picture with them matching their pumpkins!

My trick-or-treating pictures are all awful, but both kids did a great job.  Lizzie was completely brave and spoke up, saying "trick or treat" and "thank you" clearly and without prompting.  I think Nicholas was good about saying them too, although it was hard to hear with his mask and with him ahead of me.

And a few of my favorite pictures from our pre-Halloween costume days: