Woznation

The kids loved halloween this year!  We’ve had a bad run with holidays in the past – so I wasnt getting my hopes up too high, but as they are getting older – holidays are really starting to come together.  We’ve actually been talking about halloween for months since that was right around Zev’s due date – so we would tell everyone the baby was coming on halloween (and I was just praying he would actually be here and home by then! Thank goodness it worked out). So maybe that was part of the reason they were looking forward to it, but they seemed genuinely excited about the costumes, pumpkins, and trick-or-treating as well.

We started celebrating a few weeks early just in case there were any surprises with my pregnancy. I wanted to make sure we at least had costumes – so we made a big afternoon event of going to the costume store and picking out some halloween decorations.  They, of course, had to wear their costumes as soon as we got home.

They loved their ghosts in the yard, and Mimi had brought some halloween stickers for the window.  They also loved looking at all of our neighbors decorations and looking for pumpkins on people’s porches.  Its so fun living in a neighborhood where people participate in this sort of thing – it makes me so excited for the Christmas season too!

When Mimi and PopPop came to visit, we tried on more costumes and finally carved our pumpkins:

The dinosaur costume was something my Grandma Bear made for Philip when he was a kid, its an awesome costume but Wil ended up sticking with the Batman.  Both kids had halloween parties schedule for the 30th at school, but as I mentioned, Wil came down with a stomach bug right when Zevin was born and had to stay home (He was sick last year, too! Poor guy.).  Evie was able to go to her party with Mimi and Wil got all his goodies the following Monday.

Wil was feeling much better on Halloween and the kids were very excited to go trick-or-treating.  It was scheduled from 3-7 in our neighborhood.  The kids got up from their nap and enjoyed handing out candy to a handful of people as they had their snack.  I think it helped that they got to give some candy out before going themselves, so they could see what they were about to do.  Then we got dressed up and skyped with Busia and Dziadzia while they opened up a few little halloween presents from them.  My parents headed to church while Phil took the kids out around the neighborhood, and I stayed behind with my little pumpkin.

Zev slept for most of the time that Phil and the kids were out, so I was able to hand out candy.  Of course he did wake up towards the end and needed to be fed.  I definitely had the answer the door while nursing to give out candy one time, but I dont think the kids even noticed, haha.  They had their eyes on the candy.  It was actually a pretty cold and rainy night, so Wil only ended up staying out for like 30 minutes then came home, but Evie wanted to keep going!  Wil stayed in the warm house and counted his candy — Evie ended up with about double the loot!

We’ve had over a week of sugar highs now, so we’re trying to convince them to donate the rest to the troops. Overall is was a great holidays with all 3 kids 🙂