Halloween 2010

Holy cow.  The sugar content of our house went up by about a billionty seven over the weekend.  The cold of doom that the four of us contracted was more or less over with by Saturday, at which point I raced to finish Tanner's costume in time for the Lafata's Halloween party (4-6 with trick-or-treating beginning PROMPTLY at 6 p.m.) and also to help Ryan clean the house in preparation for the appearance of all four grandparents, who we invited over to see the kids in full costume.  Tanner helped clean.

Well...it sort of worked out.  I put the last stitches in Tanner's dinosaur at about quarter after 4, and while I'm definitely not very proud of my work on this costume, it turned out well enough for Tanner to trick-or-treat in and not fall into tatters immediately.

Tanner was thrilled with the candy, the kids, the costume.  He had very specifically asked for a blue dinosaur with green spikes, and ran around for hours rawring.  He was also very enthused by the neighborhood kids who dressed up as The Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2.  They were pretty stellar looking, I must say.

Little Ariana was a ladybug, which we purchased from Carter's.  I have to say, with a great deal of bias of course, we have two extremely cute kids.

We also carved some pumpkins.  Tanner drew the entire face for his pumpkin, and Ryan only helped him to outline the mouth (T kept drawing over and over the same squiggly line for the mouth).  The kid has some talent! 

From left to right, Ryan's pumpkin, mine, and Tanner's.  Ari's is the little painted one in front (I helped her :-p)
...and I think she liked it!

Annnd, here they are all lit up:

So that was our Halloween.  Now we are winding down, and every day trying to find new reasons why we don't need candy right now.  Poor Tanner, we take all the fun out of everything.  He keeps telling us that he can have candy because "the dentist told me my teeth are for crunching candy because I'm a big kid and Ari can't have any because she don't have any teeth!"  yeah...right...

So on to our next escapade.  I am planning a baby shower for Ryan's brother's girlfriend and Ryan's cousin who are both due in January.  The shower is next weekend so if I don't lose my mind, maybe I'll post some pictures of cute pregnant ladies.  Yayyy pregnant ladies.