Happy Belated Halloween Everyone.  Hope you got treated instead of tricked.  I thought I’d put up a few pics of our Pirate and Daisy, hope it makes you smile.

I love costumes!  Especially practically free ones. Somebody gave Kade this Pirate costume in a box of clothes this last summer and so we decided to put it to “official” use this year for Halloween.  The rest of the accessories we got from the Dress Up Box and I even managed to disguise his brown cowboy boots with a pair of Kyle’s black socks and some felt.  Kade really got into the face paint idea and practiced saying “Argh, Matie!” for about two weeks to get into character.  He was not into trick-or-treating this year, though.  Our neighborhood has a little parade for the kids and then after that, you can take your kids trick-or-treating around the block.  Kade didn’t want to.  He said he didn’t need to go ask for candy because we already had candy at home.  I couldn’t really argue with his logic.

This year was Berlin’s first trick-or-treating experience and the girl dove straight in.  I got her costume at a garage sale for a couple bucks this summer.  I thought it was a great deal!  Kyle thought it was pajamas!  Luckily I set him straight before he tried to make her sleep with her head wrapped in petals.  She, as opposed to Kade, LOVED trick-or-treating.  Kyle took her from house to house and not only did she hang onto her goodie bag with a death grip, by the end she had figured out how to take a handful of candy from the person’s bowl and dump it into her own bag.  No shyness problems here!

We were so glad to have a few of our friends and their kids come join us for the parade and trick-or-treating.   With a Pumpkin, Mei, Daisy and a Pirate, we had the best lookin’ crew outa the whole bunch!  Happy Halloween!