Halloween

I absolutely loved Halloween being on a Saturday. It was wonderful having all day to carve pumpkins and do all things Halloween. Not to mention not being overly worried about bedtime (not that they really sleep in) because we could sleep as needed...and oh having it the same night as daylight savings? Couldn't be better timing! My kids don't sleep in enough to make up for the missed sleep, but they are finally to the point of going back for a few more zzzzs when they wake up at the new 5:30 am. Phew.


Class Pumpkin Painting

We organized a class park/pumpkin painting play date the day before Halloween. It was rainy and windy, so it got moved to our house. Only three classmates were able to make it, but those four girls (and siblings) had a great time! Their pumpkins were quite festive. :)

Pumpkin Carving
As usual, Brad was in charge of the carving. I was in charge of the seed baking. Lorelei loved looking and picking out a template to print. Makin decided he wanted no template and wanted to carve it on his own. Both were so proud of their pumpkins. :) They loved having them lit for the trick or treaters who came to our house.

Activities
Having the whole day free of any going-out activities was nice this year. There were plenty of things going on around the area, but we just had a chill day. The pumpkins, Husker game and a few Halloween festivities I just pulled out of the Halloween tote kept us busy enough. We enjoyed Halloween Bingo, reading Halloween books, and the kids were thrilled to have some Jack O Lantern lights up.

Trick or Treating
After making the Wild Kratt vests for their party, this year was more of a "Don't you want to be Wild Kratts for Halloween?" kind of costume year. :) Then, they got suites as a gift at their party, so they were even cooler Wild Kratts. (There is a female who usually  makes all the inventions, on one episode she gets to try a creature power suit, which is purple, so that is why Lor is that color.)

They were dressed and ready way too early, and were more excited than ever before for trick or treating. We had a long trek around the neighborhood to help burn off that candy intake. ;) Then the kids loved helping pass out candy to the kids trick or treating when they were done.

We topped off the night with a short Berenstain Bears Halloween episode (that I then realized we hadn't watched) before bed, which was a fun treat for them.

Happy Halloween!