The night was cool and crisp, lights were slowly turning off, and the wagon was spilling over with candy!....literally!
We need a
retrick or treating day
AFTER halloween to get rid of some of this candy! phew!!! (sometimes I wonder if halloween was invented by a dentist....talk about job security!)
I have to say I think we are exhausted but we had SO much fun on halloween!!
I put on monster mash in the car that morning on the way to hunter's school and hunter was singing "
hunter mash!" while wiggling his little hips in his seat!!...
I could barely get him dressed that morning because he was
estatic to go to school in his costume for his parade and party!
It's the school's annual costume parade. They even had trains up at the school the last few hours for the parents to have fun with the kiddos...
(Wow momma, thooose are some BIG glasses you got there! hee hee...think we may need to change these......if you can't laugh at yourself....well then your just boring....)
After our choo choo ride we had a special special treat (because it's not Friday) and went to McDonalds! Hunter was so excited he wasn't sure what he wanted to scream first, chick or cheat or McDonalds!!!
I assured him that FIRST we eat dinner, THEN we get ready for trick or treat.....from then on he would patiently sound out in his head,....(using hunter language) phiiiirst dinner, den chick or cheat.....
We go home and he devoured his happy meal.....he adds so MUCH personality to everything...just look at how he eats his happy meal....its like he's preparing for battle!!
After dinner we bypassed our "said" process above a little....sssshhhh don't tell him!......and looked through our school treats from the day to waste some time before chick or cheat.....(precious, precious, time that mommy could get some house stuff going real quick!!)
(this is all just from school....i was thinking "Man, i am NEVER going to get him in bed tonight!)
He proudly sported his witch's brew stache too....
We finally loaded up our wagon and were off! Hunter was very persistent that HE pull the wagon...i was glad because then mommy could totally pull a paparazzi on him and get some good photos!
I actually got him to wear his hat most of the time!! (in the beginning............he wisened up and realized that he JUST needed the hat when it was time to walk up to the door.....after that he would pull his wagon to each house....stop......throw on his hat like its something he does everyday to get dressed, grab his pumpkin, and RACE up to the door...............his beard was a No Go.)
(He did so good!!)
There was one point where there were bigger kids in front of us and poor hunter was standing on his little tip toes, yelling at the top of his lungs "CHICK OR CHEAT! CHICK OR CHEAT! CHIIIICKKK ORRRRRR CHEEEEEAAAAT!!!"
I kept trying to tell him that they were NOT going to run out of candy and we had to wait our turn buuuuut he was very sure that they were not going to see him.
Hunter loved all the decorations....there was one inflatable pumpkin I thought I wasn't going to get him away from.
he even did good with some of the other scarier ones...
(weeeeeell, not good enough to actually get him in the picture but good enough that he didn't run SCREAMING home leaving his gnome hat to fend for itself...)
I'm pretty sure he had a BLAST.....it was evident when he almost fell asleep in the wagon at the end of trick or treating that he was just done but woke up in time to see alllllll of his nights hard work piled up before him.....the kid made out like a bandit.
People were falling alllll over themselves giving him BAGS of candy...literally bags.....there were a few houses that were like "oh my gosh you are the cutest thing, here, here, take it all! lets fill up your lil pumpkin!"
Oooooh my....like he really needs any more proof that he can "work the system with his charm".
There is one picture of him that just CRACKS me up...he is contemplating SO HARD about this candy corn that he was stuffing in his mouth...
Its like he's thinking "Candy Corn? or Chocolate...hmmm"...that or he's sick of craaaazy momma's paparazzi technique and thinking..."Really, aren't you done yet..."....he's a trip.
The last big event of the night was getting him to go to bed. He DID NOT want to leave all his candy!....but momma is very convincing and we managed it.
Daddy was not able to be with us trick or treating as he is in his drill currently...he'll be home soon though!! He was GREATLY missed! We did get some photo opps before he left though at my work halloween carnival!
and hunter was thinking about him the whooooole night as you can see in the video...
.....................miss you daddy!
So now its time to retire the decorated pumpkins,
and put away the pictures hanging from the pumpkin patch,
(yes, we bought this one....bluck! that had to taste gross!)
and time to start bustin out christmas........uuh I mean thanksgiving......hee hee
(The hubby and I have an understanding that I can start christmas movies and songs now but NOOOO decorations for christmas until after thanksgiving............)
Thanksgiving night it all goes up......................................I love compromise.....
Phew, with all the sugar for this holiday, I figured we needed a good start to the morning today so I made whole grain blueberry muffins.......Mmmmmmmm there is something so homey about warm muffins....
I think the whole grain worked because our lil' man spent the rest of the morning powering through the house on his bike..
Man, they get harder and harder to wrangle down to get dressed in the morning the bigger they get........
I am slowly taking down the halloween and putting up thanksgiving/fall now buuut I think all that may just have to wait til the weekend.......(that was sarcastic....it's waiting til the weekend..)
I think we may need a nap before we get to it....nap or a cup of joe....i'll take either and/or both.
Chick or Cheat!
