Halloween Festivities so far.

I LOVE FALL!  I love the cooler weather, the leaves, the soups and hot cocoa.  I especially love all the traditions.  This fall has been the best b/c the boys are finally old enough to remember some of the things we did last year and our little family's traditions are starting!  I'm LOVING it!  They remembered that last year we made ghosts out of milk cartons and asked to do it again this year.  So we did:

They remembered that we decorated our door for Halloween last year as well and want to do it again, so we did that as well:

We added a new tradition: turning the toilets into monsters (odd, I know, but I found it on pinterest and thought it cute, easy and fun):

And we even let the kids each pick out their own pumpkin (still yet to be carved b/c Micah and Sam have been sick the last few days):

I'm also loving that the kids are getting old enough to not be so scared of everything!  Last October, we were with my parents for the 1st half of the month and it took a few days before they would even consider trying on a costume.  This year, they were so excited about it, they could hardly decide.  Aren't they adorable?

They also used to be deathly afraid of any sort of pretend plastic bug.  We have hilarious video of both Micah and Noah nearing hyperventilating over a fake plastic bug last year.  Well this year, they got a cute Halloween treat in the mail from Nanna: candy and bugs and the bugs were their favorite part:

Last year I couldn't get the kids to go anywhere near anything festive: they freaked near anyone in costume and wouldn't touch a bounce house. This year, we went to a Halloween party with the boy's joyschool group and they weren't afraid of the other kids in costume:

Samantha and her adorable friend Meg (don't you love her hair!?) were super cute:

They got to play lots of fun carnival games like bowling:

Doesn't Micah really look like Woody?

I also took Noah and Samantha (Micah was sick, poor guy) to a city carnival.  Yes, Noah switched to Woody:

They bounced in the bounce house and even went on slides:

I still couldn't get them to sit in a fire engine or next to a motorcycle or a big black cat though.  And Noah would not try the cotton candy: scared to death b/c he said it looked like Monster hair and he didn't want to be a monster.  Samantha loved it though:

I'm looking forward to trick or treating tomorrow night with anyone who is healthy!  Poor Micah is still coughing like crazy and Samantha spiked a high fever just before bedtime tonight.  We'll see...