Halloweekend

We celebrated this weekend, every minute of every day. On Friday Mason went to see Alan Kazaam at the Tecumseh Civic Center with his buddy Peyton, and helped make a birdcage disappear. I took the two little boys to the Family Centre for the alternative Halloween party, where they bounced and I panicked trying to keep my eyes on them both in the middle of hundreds of children. We made it through the pre-movie trivia for "How to Train Your Dragon", and then the boys were done sitting so we headed back home.

Saturday began with the last soccer game of the season, and it was definitely time to throw in the towel. I froze watching Mason defend his goal, and he froze defending it.
After the game we got ready for the big sleepover, three little boy friends plus our three boys makes for a wild and crazy night.
We played games, made our own pizzas, played more games, had cupcakes and then got down to the business of "sleeping over" (which I now know involves scary scooby-doo cartoons, popcorn, pillow fights, fart noises and very little actual sleeping).

By Halloween proper the boys were all exhausted. Ashton took a nap, and poor Blake fell asleep while he was chewing at the dinner table. He never made it into his costume, but slept 13 hours straight. Mason and Ashton had a successful night trick or treating, and I'm happy to report that the Halloween Witch tradition survived another year at our house, although we did have to concede more than just one piece of candy to each boy.
Monday feels like a nice break after our fun-filled weekend.

Blake as Spidey for the Centre's Halloween Bash


Mason introduces Fuzzy to Jared


Monster-Tag! Blake loved being the monster.




Monster-Jared gets blindfolded



Our Pizza creations


Max is our videographer


Cupcakes! Mason and Blake are excited, I think.


Where's my tupcake?


Now the real fun begins!


The next morning, pumpkin pancakes and sausage help wake them up.


My beautiful Trick-or-Treaters

Recovery

We are still recovering from our long weekend without Sean-Daddy. He left early last Thursday and returned late-late Sunday night, and the boys were so happy to see him Monday morning! We tried to fill our time as best we could without him, but it was truly hard for all of us. Thursday Grandpa joined us for soccer practice and dinner. Friday Mason spent some time with a friend and learned how to build and launch rockets, which all the boys got to watch blasting off. Saturday we went to Carpenter Farms to get pumpkins, and discovered a truly wonderful fall playland- we will definitely go back. The boys played in the "corn box", the hay room, the petting zoo and among the pumpkin patch itself. They rode ponies and had ice cream, but we never made it to the hay maze or hayride.
Sunday I took the boys the the apple-umpkin festival in T-town, and it was a miserable failure of an afternoon. After the train ride Ash cried, because it was "sooo boooring". All weekend we had our friend cocoa bean visiting, the friendly classroom guinea pig.
All of the boys loved to feed her carrots and pet her, but Blake was especially head over heels!


Apple-Umpkin


The crafts were the only time they were all happy


Hay slide and hay swing




calves



piglets!

We found some great pumpkins

Ride 'em, cowboys

How We Roll

In our jammies, of course! Or, whatever passes for jammies at the time. We took advantage of the last moments of a beautiful day. They're bathed and brushed, what else is there to do besides riding a bike in your robe?

Can you tell it's homecoming weekend? And that I am not a very good photographer?