Halloween

Riley, Daddy and Aiden carving pumpkins.

Riley thought he should have a pumpkin mouth.

Aiden tried taking the stuff out of the middle of the pumpkin and thought it was really gross. He didn't want to touch any of it any more! I would have to agree!


Riley thought it was gross too...he asked if he could use a spoon.

Daisy, Aiden and Riley at the Anoka Halloween parade.

Riley and Aiden sitting in front of the giant inflatable jumping pumpin.

Riley at the pumpkin patch.

Riley and Aiden at the pumpkin patch. We went to the Anoka Halloween parade first...they didn't want to take their costumes off...so we let them wear them at the pumpkin patch.

Mommy and Aiden picking out pumpkins.

Daddy and Aiden Halloween night. Aiden had a mask to go with his costume, but it kept covering his eyes, so he asked if he could wear white make-up instead.

Riley in his costume at the Como Zoo. We went trick or treating there.

The boys definitely got use out of their Halloween costumes this year. On the 27th, we went to the Anoka Halloween parade with some friends. There were tons of people there and we ended up getting a pretty good spot to sit...the kids had a good time watching all the people dressed up and getting candy. While walking back to our car, Riley liked the attention he was getting when people were pointing out his Ninja Turtle costume. He was waving at them...like he was actually in the parade.

After that we took Riley and Aiden to the pumpkin patch to get our pumpkins. We came home and carved them later that night. Aiden hated the gooey stuff inside the pumpkin. Riley asked to use a spoon to get the stuff out.

On Sunday, Riley asked if there was anywhere we could go that he could wear his costume to. He liked wearing it on Saturday and wanted people to see him dressed up. Yes, this is the same child who will not talk to people and is very shy when he is first meeting someone. So....we decided to look online and see what was going on. We found that the Como Zoo had something called the BooZoo. Jamma went and got our tickets at Cub Foods. We got to the zoo and the line was soooo incredibly long. We were thankful we had our tickets and got to go right in. I felt sorry for the people who had to wait in line. While in the zoo...Aiden kept getting really frusturated. He didn't like all the people waiting in lines. He wanted to keep walking. They had fun.

Finally, on Halloween night, we went trick or treating. Riley has a friend whose house he wanted to go to. That's the only place he wanted to go...then he wanted to go home so that he could be home when the little boy got to our house. It was really cute. Aiden on the other hand, was really excited to go trick or treating. He and I stayed out longer than Riley and Daddy. Aiden would go up to a house, ring the doorbell, say, "Trick or Treat, Thank you". He would then say, "Next" and run toward the next house. If I would have let him, he would have gone to every house in the neighborhood and every other house in town. It was fun to see the excitement on his face as he went out this year. When we got home the boys handed out candy to everyone that came to our house. Riley kept yelling at Aiden telling him that he should only be giving the kids one piece of candy so that we wouldn't run out! At 8:30 we finally shut our lights off so that we could give the boys baths and get ready for bed. Riley and Aiden couldn't understand why we wouldn't answer the doorbell anymore whenever people came. We tried to explain that our lights were off and we didn't have any more candy. They didn't get it and had a hard time....leaving kids standing on the door step.

This weekend we talked about putting our Halloween stuff away, but the boys aren't ready for that yet. Riley had a sleep over at my sisters Friday night. He came home yesterday and said his ear hurt. He kept complaining about it and was holding it and crying. We finally took him in to have it looked at and found out that he had a double ear infection. He had a fever and swollen lymph nodes. He hasn't had an ear infection since he was a baby. He had a pretty rough day...poor thing. He has been ASKING for us to give him medicine....which isn't typical for him. Hopefully...he'll feel better soon!