Happy Halloween!!!

Did everyone get lots and lots of candy??? Salem and Kaden sure did! Salem was Commander Cody and Kaden was Obi won Kenobi. Or since he can't wear his glasses with his mask, we called him Obi BLIND Kenobi, lol. He only ran into 3 poles tonight!!

The boys both had parties at school and luckily they were at different times so I was able to attend both of them! Kaden's was at 1pm and they got to dress up in their costumes and parade in the other 3rd grade classrooms. Then they ate treats and played Halloween Bingo. His poor teacher went home with the flu today :( He has missed so much school, but he had knee surgery, twice in the past 2 months, so it's knocked him down a bit. He was hoping to be back full time this week, but now he has the flu, so hopefully he'll be back next week!

Salem's party was at 2:30. They are not allowed to wear costumes. Their party was only 30 minutes long too, so they just ate their treats and played a couple quick games. Kids had fun trading candy and talking.

At home Salem decided he did want to carve his pumpkin, so we printed out a template to help him and away he went. He did a great job!! He even pushed the carved piece out with his bare hands, GASP!!

I was able to get dinner cooked before too late. We had ham and potatoes and corn. Big dinner to get us through the night!! And we were out the door by 6pm to go trick or treating! Started off 2 house had their lights on but no one answered :( Phooey! Kids were fine and kept going. The one house goes pretty big for Halloween (not as big as the Alligator Al's house back in MI) but decent for around here. This year they added an electrocution chair with a blow up guy in it. You could hear the screams from blocks away!! Seriously the house was 5 blocks from ours and we could hear it at home. They had lots of ghoulish characters in the yard, but were nice and friendly to the kids. But scared the crap out of the older ones! Kids hit a bunch of houses this year! Got tons of candy!!

Oh, we all know the movie It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. Well if you recall after each house the kids would discuss what they got candy wise from that house. Salem kept doing that, so I knew I had to find someone who would give them a rock! We came upon a good friend of Salem's whose mom was handing out candy. I knew she would be perfect to play the game! I ran up ahead of the kids and picked up a couple rocks from her garden and handed them to her saying she had to give the kids the rocks...and then she can give them candy. She was awesome! Gave the kids the rocks and said that was all, lol! Poor Kaden you could see his face drop as he turned away. But then she yelled, no, just kidding, I've got candy too! The kids got a big kick out of it afterwards! And the friend's mom was glad to help out! Even better is we'll return the rocks to her this weekend, even though they are tiny little plain rocks, it'll make it even funnier!

So we finally are done with the houses, kids are pooped, Keith and I are exhausted as well. Kaden wants to sit out and hand out candy to everyone, but no one shows :( He sits down at the bottom sidewalk and waits and waits. Finally I say we need to come in and if someone shows up he can hand it out at the door.

They dump out their pillow cases full of candy and check out their loot. Salem digs through his pile and Kaden neatly separates all of his. They both make a trade pile and the trading begins. Salem is begging for Kaden's warheads and trades him 2 PB cups for the tiny 1! After their trading we them begin the selling of the candy. I started it a few years ago to reduce the amount of sugar the kids get and dental bills since they stink at brushing their teeth. It's again apparent how different they are. Kaden goes first and is ALL for the money!! He's even trading his PB cups for 10¢! Salem is a little more reserved, he likes his candy. He trades some stuff and ends up with $3. Kaden went buck wild at the end and split his leftover candy in half and ended up with $6.30! And that's giving them between 5¢ and 10¢ per piece. This works out well for Keith and I as we then get all the candy!


It was a gorgeous day and night here! High of 71! Even when the sun went down it was still warm out! Better than TOT in the snow! Kaden had to keep taking his mask off because he was sweating so much! Salem's mask was just squishing his nose so he kept flipping it up between houses. Wonderful night though to be out!!