Sorry it's late, and these pictures are in no particular order, but I needed to get them posted so we can go to bed!I'm posting this NOW because today was Chloe's birthday and I can't post her birthday pictures until I post the Halloween ones first!
We had a great day. A lot of the costume shots we got were actually the week before Halloween when we were testing them out, mostly because you're always a bit stressed to get out the door when you are getting ready to go trick-or-treating and I hate being the only thing that stands between my kids and free candy from the neighborhood. Doing them the week before gave the kids a chance to get used to the costumes and get some nice pictures in. Chloe was super girl this year. She still frequently asks to wear her costume, but we've already put it away so she has to just wear her superman hat and call it good. Linus was a gnome. We saw the costume at Wal-Mart and I about died laughing. Then when we put it on Linus I did die laughing- he looked so cute/hilarious. I just wanted to plant him in my garden and put him on display all year round. He actually let us keep the beard on when we went trick-or-treating. It didn't take him long to figure out the routine from house to house: okay, get out of the wagon, walk eagerly up to the door, stare blankly at the strangers there as my parents try to get me to say "trick or treat" which I don't know how to say yet, wait for the strangers to finish oggling over my beard, then ready-set-grab the candy and turn around and put it in whatever bucket is closest to me, quickly hobble back to the wagon and hop in face first while my parents pick me up so I can sit on my bottom and move on down the street. We also went out in the afternoon to do downtown's business trick-or-treating, but I didn't get any pictures of that because I left my camera at home. We also carved pumpkins (which really meant sitting down and watching while Mommy and Daddy carve all the pumpkins). All in all the kids had a great day and didn't even go to bed cranky from a sugar rush. :-)
