Holy Cannoli yesterday was a full day! Only one injury-not bad

We started the day by dropping Devin off to school for his Halloween day. He went dressed in costume and was SO excited to play with his classmates all dressed up. He chose his costume off the wall of ideas from Party City. Of all the costumes (Batman/Superman/Spider man/Thor.....) he chose to be a surgeon. Love that, and he was the cutest surgeon of all time of course! Riley just wore one of her Halloween shirts and off we went. After dropping Devin off, Riley and I went to Brooklyn Bagels and sat outside to kill 45 minutes until we had to be back to his school for his parade and festive song. Last year parents were invited to the classrooms where the children sang a handful of song...this year we went to the all purpose room and they sung one song. LAME. When I called the school to ask what the deal was they said it was too hard to get the children to "focus again once parents left after their concerts." I mean seriously, do kids really have hard school days on Halloween?  I picked him up early since I ran out of errands to run after we left his parade and his school is across town so I wasn't going to go home. The class was reading Charlie Browns Great Pumpkin book and getting ready to have some apples and caramel for snack. Devin was all amped up to leave since his friend Gabi was coming over to play.

Gabi is one of Dev's buddies who also has a little brother Dominic that Riley plays with. Riley is right between Devin and Gabi age wise so she plays with both the big kids and Dom. Yesterday was pretty funny with them. They went from upstairs to out back and back up again. Riley changed her outfit 2 or three times while they were here. My friend Leigh Anne laughed and asked if I do a lot of laundry...boy is that an understatement. Yes, I do a lot of laundry! Pretty much 9-10 loads a week in my large front loader. BOO to laundry. The kids played well together for 2.5 hours with really no issues. Can't ask for much more than that considering you have 4 kids four and under.  I figured with all that playtime both my kids would nap for sure....NOPE! Neither one took a nap yesterday and that could be a total disaster or OK. Thankfully it was fine. Riley has only skipped a nap twice in her life now and she hung in there until 7:15 when she crashed at normal bedtime.

We went to our friends house last night for some pizza before trick or treating. The two younger kids wanted nothing to do with eating and thankfully Devin and his buddy Cash did a bit before giving up to play. We hit the neighborhood and were striking out more than we were getting people to answer the doors, but the kids were not discouraged. Dev was so excited that he was running from house to house and it was definitely advantageous that our houses are so close together! Cash, Devin and Riley were all about getting lots of candy and poor little Cooper wasn't feeling well so he hung back with us in his wagon for the majority of the neighborhood.

Riley touched a hot flood light and burned her little hand about half way into the neighborhood. She and I came home after we hit up a few more houses and I gave her a gel ice pack to hold while we answered the door for trick or treaters. She loved getting to say Happy Halloween to the kids and see what they were dressed up as. Her hand was red and puffy and looked as though it would blister over. She went to sleep with the gel pack in hand. She did wake up a little later and started to cry because it hurt and I got her a new gel pack from the freezer and gave her some children's Motrin. She stayed asleep for the rest of the night and her hand thankfully looks fine today.



asleep with gel pack in hand :(

 Devin stayed out with Frank and finished the rest of the neighborhood and got back around 7pm. He was so excited that he filled up his spider bucket and wanted to go to more houses. We live in a small subdivision inside a larger subdivision so we went to another mini division within the neighborhood. They had a lot of houses with spooky decorations and a lot more groups of kids walking around. Devin was so excited for about two streets then started to loose steam. He asked me if I was tired and told me he was pretty tired. I said lets go home then and he said, "Well that house has spooky decorations so let's go there and then back home." We then would go to that house and he would see another one with decorations or lots of kids so we ended up going to about 15 more houses before turning back. He was adored by so many older kids and parents as we walked around. One house had strobe lights, cool decorations, fog machine, things hanging all over the place and ghoulish music. Devin very hesitantly walked up to the door while looking at everything and got his candy then said, "Let's get out of this place mom!" I was cracking up. It was so funny to see the kids look at all the decorations with fear, excitement and curiosity.


Frank took the glow necklace off, and he put it back on after
Frank left his room. So sweet...


The kids are not really allowed to have candy or any sweets for that matter unless its a special day/bday party or such. It took us until Easter last year to go through their Halloween candy and I had to throw some out even then. I am guessing this year will be no different. I am not a big sweets person and even though Frank is, we do not really eat candy. The kids will get a piece now and then, but definitely not daily.