We had to give Mike a ride to work at 4:00 a.m. and I was afraid that Michael would be too excited to go back to sleep, he did though. Usually when I wake him up for school he tells me he needs ten more minutes. This morning he sat right up and asked "Is it Halloween already?" When I told him yes he got right up. He was so excited about his Halloween party at school that he told me his stomach hurt too bad to eat cereal. It was so fun for me to see him that excited! I told him he had to eat three bites, because I new it was just his excitement, and after those three bites he finished his cereal! Then we got him ready.
I wish I would have taken a picture of him before school because he did look really good. He was twenty minutes late for school though because when I was almost done with the face paint the first time he decided to cry when I got too close to his eyes. So I had to wipe it off and start again. Then he cried again! The third time was the charm.
My bathroom was a wreck when I got done!
The whole preschool class sang a cute song for the parents. I couldn't see until the very end but when I did get to look Michael was sitting on the ground looking through his treat bag instead of singing with the class!
After the song all of the kids went trunk or treating to the parents cars. It was a lot of fun!
We were asked to decorate our trunks. I wanted to make a creepy spiderweb mess with lots of spiders on it. I didn't practice with the spiderweb stuff and it is a lot harder than I thought it would be! So I ended up with a spiderweb tube! At least I tried!
After Michaels getting ready didn't go very smoothly I really didn't want to fight with Mason over his head piece! I knew I had to try though. He cried for the first few minutes on our way to the preschool then fell asleep! He must have been tired cause he slept through the song and the truck or treat!
Michael with the pumpkin that he decorated at school. I thought it was so cute!
This was how I expected his make up to look after the party. It means he had a lot of fun! He told me that the Batman at school wiped it all of and then put it on Michaels hands. Hmmm, I wonder?
When we got home and Mason woke up he was still really mad at me! Here he thought he was hiding from the camera!
He absolutely would not let me get a picture! So I gave up and we went inside for lunch and a break from the costumes!
I decided to make Jack-O-Lantern grilled cheeses for lunch. Michael thought they were pretty cool and I think it might be a new tradition!
I was really worried about redoing Michaels make up. The second round went very well though with no crying! I was very happy with the way it turned out too! I just didn't want it to get messed up before I got a picture of him and Mason together so the whole way there I kept reminding him not to touch his make up. He did really good about not touching and every time he reminded me that it was not make up it was face paint!
I was so excited to get this good of a picture! I really didn't think it was possible but both boys did really well sitting there for me. The only challenge was that there was another family there at the same time using the other end of the display that were being really loud so Mason kept watching them, but Mason did really well with his costume the rest of the day! I did feel bad for him though because the eye holes did not match up with his eyes, he got used to it though and did fine!
After pictures we went to Smiths to see Grandma Tresa. Then we went to the Red Cliffs Mall for their trick or treating. It didn't take as long to get through the mall as I thought it would and it was a good way for Michael to understand what was going on. Until we actually started trick or treating he thought that there was a Halloween Man that was going to give him a bunch of candy! After the mall we were thinking about going to the Washington City Rec Center for their trunk or treat but when we got home to get our candy we saw that there was a lot of kids running around our neighborhood so we decided to stay home.
Mike stayed home to pass out the candy while I took the boys trick or treating. I was so happy that we could go in our neighborhood because I think that is much better than going car to car! Mason was ready to walk with us but he was just too slow to keep up with Michael, so he rode in the stroller!
Michael acted like an old pro! He knocked on the door, said "trick or treat", and then "thank you". He even remembered to bring Mason back a piece some of the time! I was so fun for me to see him be so excited and having so much fun! I want nothing more than to keep him this age forever! (or at least remember every moment)
I kept taking away Mason's suckers but he sneaked one past me and got it open himself! After going up and down two streets Michael told me he was done. I thought I got lucky so we headed back to the house stopping at the houses on the way. When we were almost there I found out the real reason he was done was because he was worried about Mike giving away all of the candy that we bought. After explaining to him that we needed to give out all of our candy so he could get candy from the neighbors he wanted to go trick or treating more!
We were happy with our ten dollar decorations from Albertsons and we got a lot of compliments on our house. Someone even asked to take their kids pictures on our lawn!
After trick or treating we went to my Grandpa Johnson's house for chili. On the way home Michael complained for the first time about his costume. When we got home he stepped inside the door, stripped to his undies, and went to the fridge for a big drink of milk. I thought we would have a problem getting the boys to fall asleep from all of the sugar, but they both feel asleep as soon as their head hit the pillow!
It was so cute how serious they were about putting the ornaments on!
This is Michaels little clutter. Normally I would have spread everything out after he was done but this year I left it alone and now I like it!
We have a picture of Michael helping Mike put the star on the top since he was six months old. It is fun to look at them and see how he has changed each year!
The whole time Michael was putting the star on I was telling him to give me a "cheese" so as soon as Mike got Mason up there he looked at me and said "cheese"! It was so funny.
There is the final product. Hopefully I remember to water it this year so it isn't brown on Christmas day!
