October/Halloween fun!!

My mother is a great artist and she would sometimes paint our front window on holidays.  When I was really little, she would load us up and we would go with her while she painted the windows for local businesses for the holidays.  Not sure how she managed to take small children with her while she did this, but she is obviously a better mother than me.

 I thought it would be fun for Caiden to have some memory of Grandma painting so I asked if she would come decorate our window for Halloween.  She agreed and bought some paint and patterns for Caiden to pick from. He chose this design and helped tell her what colors to paint.  It was a great idea!  The window looked very festive!

 We carved pumpkins this year, and by we I mean me.  I thought the boys would like getting down and dirty pulling out the inside "guts" but I apparently have wimpy girly boys who don't like to get dirty so I ended up doing most of this myself.  Oh well.  Caiden put the crying face on the small pumpkin being eaten.

This year, Caiden asked if he could have a Halloween party and I told him we could do that in place of a birthday party and he agreed.  We invited over all his little friends and I had to try and entertain them for an hour and a half!  We had a coloring contest, decorated cookies, played pin the face on the Jack-O-Lantern, made tootsie pop ghosts, and had a pinata at the end for the kids to break open!

 

 

 Paxton got to invite his little friend form the babysitters- They had fun hanging out together in the bedroom without bothering the big kids too much.

 The girls in this picture look like they are giants, but they have tall parents and they are both a year older than all the boys!

 

The cheap pinata that I bought only took two turns before it was busted open. I don't think the kids who didn't get a turn minded that much though because they all got lots of candy!