Not so Dash

Poor thing. She was such a trooper keeping up with the big kids. She didn't even finish her M&Ms.

An Incredibles Halloween

When I asked Celie what she wanted to be for Halloween, she told me about 5 different things. Finally, after watching the Incredibles one night (a Disney Movie), Celie decided that for Halloween, we all should be the Incredibles for Halloween. She would be Violet, Anna would be Dash, Jake would be baby Jack Jack, Bob would be, well, Bob - or Mr. Incredible and I would be Elastigirl. So, before I put a ton of effort into the costumes, I waited to make sure that she repeated this request and that Anna did not come up with any request of her own. I finished the costumes this morning - just in time for Halloween.

We were very lucky to have the Deliberato's over for dinner. They have 2 children - twins and they just turned 5. They were dressed as Darth Vader and Sleeping Beauty. They went trick or treating with us around the neighborhood. We had a great time and was glad that we could share the experience with others.

We received several comments on our costumes. I believe they were a hit. If you haven't seen the Incredibles, we highly recommend it. There are a lot of parallels. Being Superheros and all. :)

Halloween @ School

The girls had a Halloween Parade at school. Me, being the nervous parent - more nervous for Bob having to deal with both girls and Jake at the parade - thought it probably wouldn't be a great idea for the girls to have complicated costumes - because if they LOVED them too much, then they wouldn't want to take them off - and the parade was only for 15 minutes. So, Celie decided that it was OK for her to be KaiLan - who is a character from Nick Jr. She is a chinese and has a lot of friends and she speaks English and Chinese - Celie will often call things by their chinese name. So, here is a picture of the girls - with Jake in the KaiLan outfits - Anna decided that it would be fun to be her too. Didn't Bob do a great job on their pigtails & bows? I am very proud of him. And Jake for surviving being between the two.

Halloween Decorations

To keep Celie occupied this past weekend, so she wouldn't wake up Jake during his nap and she would leave Bob alone so he could watch the football game, we decided to decorate for Halloween. We ended up doing quite well, though most of our stuff is in the dining room, we did put some things throughout the house.

The second pic down - Celie wanted to write a sign that said KEEP OUT so that is what she did and then we hung it in the window and than hung the bats up. It was perfect.

Hopefully, we will make it to a pumpkin patch this weekend and get some pumpkins to decorate the outside.

Both girls were definitely into it. I am really looking forward to decorating for X-mas now.