Our Halloween was a lot of fun.
Ben is Iron Man (in red). Alex is War Machine* (blue). (*Cody brought it to my attention that I called him Warhammer before my edit. I have NO idea where that came from. I don't know the characters as well as Cody, but I DO know it is not Warhammer. Sorry, Cody! I assume it is because I typed it quickly after the Halloween craziness.)
I still can't keep them off my chairs. I had the chairs up for a Halloween party we had. We invited our friends from across the street and their 10 month old and our friends from the Thomas party and their 2 kids to pre-treat before trick or treating. It went really well.
Alex
Finally quit standing and decided to climb up on the counter. I really missing having upright chairs. :(
If you notice, I only have one curtain up on the window. I lost a curtain. I think it is a hilariously Courtney thing to do. I'm nearly sure I will probably find it.
We had 2 couples and their kids over. I took the opportunity to make themed food. I don't know if you know how much I like making weird food things... but I do. Anyone remember the turkey Army in Virginia?
Here is the food area
Kitty Litter Cake. It was supposed to be served in a litter pan, but I was too cheap to invest in that for this. More honestly, I went to look at Hyvee, but they didn't have one. I was too lazy to go anywhere else. It still looked pretty authentic.
Grape worm family. Mom and Dad in the middle, and babies all around
Pumpkin Cheesecake Dip. Not fun, but good.
Turkey Meatball Mummies
The drink area. B + blood, which we decided should be B -. Also a significant number of jello shots. I gave 2 jalapeno devil horns to be Devil shooters, but the rest were just regular. I did one of the shots with one of the jalapeno horns. It was DELICIOUS. Spicy, but delicious.
We had a good time trick-or-treating, but we didn't get any pictures. It was already dark and really cold when we went out at about 6:45. The first house we went to is the nice neighbors that have baked us stuff and made the baby's quilts. The boys felt comfortable enough at their house to just walk right in their house while she was giving them candy. Cody and I had to chase them in to the kitchen almost. Sorry, neighbors! My kids are animals. Other houses went better. They got pretty good at the routine. One house had a neat little haunted house set up with curtains in their garage. They were nice enough to yell ahead at the monsters to let us by without any scares. The boys got to see the people in masks and take in all the strobe lights and stuff. All in all we were out for probably 20 minutes and hit maybe 10 houses. The kids were losing interest and everyone was cold. Candy is cheap enough to buy without going to all that effort for free stuff. Nobody hassled us about giving their candy to toddlers (us using the toddlers to get free candy). A few houses had toddler ready candy or fruit chews for little ones.
This is when we came back. Alex had a costume change and trick or treated as the Hulk. When we came home, he walked around giving his candy to everyone. Here he is giving candy to our 2 year old friend from previous posts.
Our boys also continued their love of sharing by giving the infant brother grapes again. This time they didn't put the grape in his mouth, though. My boys are just too good at sharing, I guess!
Alex
After everyone left, I saw that our friends across the street were outside, so I told Cody to go hang out with him and I'd get the boys down. The next set of pictures is my time alone with the boys until bed. Cody ended up staying up there for like 3 hours, so I did get a nice bit of time to sit alone on the couch and relax alone after they went down.
We had to take another bath. I let them eat candy until almost 9 (bed time is 8!). They really liked playing in our candy bowl.
This is the bowl we had for trick or treaters. We get almost no trick or treaters at our house. We have a really long street with a pretty big hill and only 3 houses. It is totally not worth walking on our street for candy. They stop at the house down on the corner on a main path, but that is pretty much it. The boys took the full bowl as a chance to play.
Alex in diaper. Ben dressed.
And make a mess. Alex standing. Ben on floor.
Ben being a candy monster
I cut them off from candy after I got them dressed for bed. (Yes, those are footie pajamas. Their room gets cold!) Alex tricked me by getting the sucker open himself. Then he stood there putting the wrapper back on and taking it off. He was really proud. Then really sad when I took it away.
Party aftermath
We gave up on keeping the chairs upright.
The house is still destroyed. I'll get to it later! :)
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