Halloween

Ok, so I know I'm a little late on the Halloween post, but I've been a little distracted lately. We bought our plane tickets and are headed to get our little boy on the 27th!! A little sad to not have him for Thanksgiving, but happy to know everything is falling in place and he will be home SOON!!

So this year we were riding in the car, and I asked Miriam what she wanted to be for Halloween (secretly chanting under my breath, "say princess, say princess" because I figured that costume would be easy). Without a minutes hesitation she says "a crow!". So I stammer out something about how maybe she could wear black tights and a black shirt and I could try to find her some feathers, but she just said, "I just want to be a crow!".

Upon arrival at home, I was looking around our living room and spied some decorative scarecrows lying around, and intuition from on high hit me. I turned to Miriam, pointed to the scarecrow, and asked, "is that what you want to be!" "Yes!" she says, "like I said, a crow!" Well I was more than a little relieved that I wasn't going to have to pay for therapy 10 years from now to uncover why my 3 year old wanted to be a large black bird for Halloween. So we happily went shopping for the right accessories to turn my baby girl into the world's cutest scarecrow.

And Elijah, you ask? Well....ummm...ok see the thing is that he's barely two so he doesn't really care and it took a lot longer to figure out Miriam's costume so....well....ok so he wore a pair of batman pajamas and Jeff safety pinned some black material to the back to make a cape. But he's the cutest little batman-pj-wearing little boy I've ever seen! There might be a therapy bill in the future for him.

Our neighborhood friends invited us over for a little Halloween party, and they did an AMAZING job decorating their home, making themed treats, and generally letting the kids have a great time. Then we went trick-or-treating to the 4 apartments of our friends in the neighborhood.

Here are my sweet kiddos looking absolutely adorable!

Please ignore Elijah's demon eyes, I forgot to format it first

Ok, seriously, cutest scarecrow ever!

Jeff showing off his awesome carving skills with a June pumpkin

Miriam with the spider cupcake she made. I would have taken a picture of Elijah's, but well he wasn't interested in decorating once he got handed something covered in frosting.