All Hallow's Eve

Another Halloween has come and gone and I may have reached a new peak of indifference this year when it came to the children's costuming choices.  Yes -- I may have gone all out in seasons past and sewn brand-new costumes for the kids, but these days I'm just as likely to do absolutely nothing and let the kids costume themselves.  Hahaha.  Tonight's venture proved to be a sort of middle ground, with Sophie and Jane choosing costumes from our overflowing dress-up bin, and Ethan and Grace sporting brand-new looks that I happened to score for half-off at a newly opened thrift store this  morning.  It was a win-win situation. 

Even though NONE of my kids brought costumes to school today for their class parties, they were all properly decked out for the real trick-or-treating tonight.  Grace in particular went all out by improving upon the simple black dress and blue wig I found today at Red Rack.  After taping a bunch of construction paper together and then cutting it out into a giant circle, I helped her slit it up to the middle and wrap it around itself into a cone.  And then, while she went to paint her face {and her hands and her feet} green and her fingernails black, I went ahead and cut out and taped a couple of sections for the "brim" to help her finish it up.  All in all it was an impressive joint effort.  She is one creative and resourceful girl!  

Ethan was much more excited about his costume than I thought he'd be, so that was a nice surprise as well.  It was most likely due to the fact that it was orange, but for some reason I think the Home Depot sponsorship tickled him as well. 

He's really into goofy poses these days.

Sophie went as Cinderella while sporting a Cinderella sticker on her sling.  Very existential.  Hahaha.  By all accounts her broken wrist garnered lots of attention and excitement today, so that's good.  I had to run over to the school this afternoon to give her some more ibuprofen and managed to pop in right at the start of her class party.  It was a slightly awkward moment when the mother of the boy who pushed Sophie off the monkey bars came over to apologize right before I left.  I felt kind of bad for HER and think I ended on a "don't worry about it" note before I headed out the door.  

Cute little Jane.  She's such a character.  She told me today that last night's outfit was her dressing like a "cool kid."  Tonight she went with the slightly less cool but still pretty awesome care bear costume that Grace wore back in the day.  She made it work. 

They were only out for about an hour, but they still came home with too much candy for my sanity's sake.  And considering we had ZERO people knock on our door tonight, we have more than enough candy to last us for awhile.  So, with the evening drawing to an end I'll leave you with a Happy Halloween and one last shot of the almost birthday girl! 

 

{So hard to believe she's going to be 8!}