Halloween Success!

Halloween was a blast in our house!  Lydia wanted to be Tinker bell, but when she saw Maya was wearing Aiden's monkey costume from 5 years ago (sniff, sniff), she decided to wear Connor's lion costume from...5 years ago (sniff, sniff).  They couldn't be better matched personality wise.  I often hear Maya saying, "I wan A-en" and then Lydia follows with "I wan Connor" on a daily basis.

I wasn't allowed to get solo pictures of Maya... 

We were greeted with the sweet presence of Minnie Mouse in her pretty puffy lace! 

And Rapunzel took her thrown with her long luscious locks! 

 Vampire #1 scared us silly!

And Vampire #2 gave us a fright!  (Their pics got twisted and turned around...oops!) 

 The fairy with lost wings, couldn't  fly high enough for her her screaming monkey!

But he calmed in time! 

We played games--toss the scarecrow, in which the person with  the scarecrow in the end was the ultimate LOSER!  But don't mind our TRICK, the LOSER got a TREAT!  The babes bounced their bodies to Taylor Swift's "You belong with me!" as the scarecrow flew, flopped, and then fell stagnant in Maya's and Hallie's hands!

We searched for "CLUE'S" which led to a hidden treat!  CLUES: stripes, flowers, pretty, homemade, has hand-L's, screams "hold me", and contains your treat.  I guess I thought the kids could think a little more abstract at this age, but they couldn't....yet, Connor still found the treat in a homemade hand bag.  He thought it was awesome that I made 7 clues, and we have 7 people in our family!  WOW...he can find symbolism where it was never meant to be!

Talk about last minute Halloween success!  The kids closed the afternoon with Halloween cartoons, a cupcake, and then off to a night of more Halloween fun! I took the boys and Lydia out for an hour and a half of trick or treating and was pleased when a teenage boy stoped to help Aiden pick up all of his dropped candy!  What a pleasant Halloween we enjoyed!  I received dozens of Thanks You's from my sweet boys all night long!