Trick or Treat!!

We had so much fun trick or treating!! First we went to Old Town and the boys rode in the wagon and ran into every store to get candy....they were really excited and would run out after each one yelling..."I got candy".... and at the yogurt shop, you get a free frozen yogurt if you wear a costume so even I dressed up(I wanted my free frozen yogurt of course! and it was worth it!) The boys got chocolate and then had little chocolate faces that looked like they had eaten a whole basket of chocolate. Well the boys were so excited they wanted to keep trick or treating so we went home and got a flashlight and walked all around our block with Ewan charging up to every house(overcoming even his fear of dogs for the sake of chocolate) yelling "trick or treat" He was really into it!! And Lucas kept saying "Let's try this house". I think they would have had us trick or treating all night long if they could. So we came home and poured out all the candy and then they jumped around for about an hour around it and then went for a really long drive to "look at all the decorations" (to fall asleep since they were so hyper) and that was about it. Happy Halloween! They are already planning out next year! Here they are below...Lucas is eating his "special treat from Nonna"- a trader joes fruit leather....best treat ever!

and Emmy was a little flower...She slept through all of the trick or treating, but she did get a couple of extra pieces of candy for us for being so cute!!

Pumpkin fun!

This is George. Ewan's pumpkin. We tried to wait till as close to Halloween as possible to carve him since it has been so HOT down here, but Ewan was not having it. He wanted to carve his pumpkin the night (at 9 pm ) we got his pumpkin, and logical explanations about how we can't carve it in his carseat on the way home and how if we carved it too early it wouldn't last just weren't working.... So Pete made up a story about a pumpkin named George and somehow it calmed him down and we carved him the next day. Anyway, designed by Ewan, here is George with all his friends... Baby Girl, Big Daddy, and Curious
Well since it was 3 weeks ago, George didn't make it to Halloween, but the boys really liked watching him turn all black and moldy and poking him with sticks as he was "getting rotten", but here we are carving the rest. Ewan really liked taking out the seeds and all the "glop" and designing the faces. He designed the big pumpkin with the smiling face and teeth because "pumpkins always have teeth" and he was pretty upset that Lucas wanted a "growly-faced" pumpkin with no teeth........which describes Lucas the past 2 weeks as he is getting all 4 molars at once......he was really excited about that growly face!!! Here is Ewan carving and Lucas running. He didn't want anything to do with touching the pumpkin seeds because they were too "slimy".

And then since we had such a big windstorm the night before, the boys raked up all the leaves into a big pile to play with...