Halloween '07

Halloween 2
Halloween 2
Harper and Hays playing with Diego while Hadlee puts a diaper on the penguin while I carved the pumpkin.

More pics from our Halloween adventure. We started the afternoon off with an attempt to carve a pumpkin. My helpers one by one headed into the garage then Hays came to me with a box. The box had been left by Terri before their nap and I didn't even have a chance to look at it. I asked the kids if they wanted to carve the pumpkin or go inside and open the box. All three said "Inside" so we headed inside so Mom could open the box. The next two hours were filled with playing with their new Diego toy and uninterrupted pumpkin carving.

We ate a good supper that everyone liked so no one would get fussy or hungry for candy. I figured I had one more shot to have 3 cows or 3 monkeys while getting costumes out of the closet. Hays and Hadlee were set on being monkeys and Harper definitely wanted to be a cow. While I'm making supper for Wade, (or heating it up) Harper starts screaming like we had never heard her. She handed Wade a bee and in the process got stung. Fifteen minutes before we need to be ready for Trick or Treat and Harper's thumb is getting huge and we can't get her to stop screaming! After we medicate Harper, she's in an o.k. mood but doesn't want anything to do with her costume. Oh well, we get the other two dressed and finally Harper decides she's ready to be a cow. The doorbell rings and the "trick-or-treating" begins. Hadlee and Harper really got into handing candy out to the kids. Hays just wanted to play with Diego.

After the kids got home from visiting the neighbors and getting more candy than Wade and I could possibly eat in a week, we let them eat a lollipop. (dumdum) Harper probably had 4 plus more candy-she loved eating candy. Hays had his dumdum and was back in the house playing with Diego and Hadlee took her time eating hers. At eight o'clock Wade took Hadlee's dumdum away because it was time to brush teeth and go to sleep. I promised Hadlee that we would get candy in the morning. The next morning they had to get their costumes on to eat their dumdums. It took Hadlee an hour to finish her one piece of candy and that was after I ate half of it!!