Happy Halloween 2011

Halloween was a lot of fun again this year!  We started our Halloween Festivities on Friday with a party at Timmy's preschool.  The kids wore their costumes to school and paraded into the sanctuary where moms and siblings were anxiously awaiting them.  They were supposed to be leading us in a sing-a-long, but they were all audience-shy!  A few of them did some of the movements or sang along to the choruses, but the teacher repeatedly promised that they are more involved in class!

The little witch kept trying to unmask Timmy, finally I heard her ask, "Are you Timmy or Henry?" (Henry is the other blonde hair, blue eyed boy in class!)

Tyler, anxiously awaiting the performance!

We all went back to their classroom to help them make paper bag pumpkins and eat a special Halloween snack together.  Mom and I made juice box mummies, a little idea I found on pinterest that got rave reviews.  I love having Timmy's school right around the corner from work so I can take advantage of all of these activities!

Earlier in the week we had gone to Timmy's preschool for their Fall Festival.  The highlights there included raking leaves, jumping on hay bales, finger painting, playing in corn, and face painting.

Timmy helped me make a pinterest inspired snack for that too, acorn cookies!  One of the other mom's said, "Oh, you're one of those creative mom's!" when she saw them, I had to confess to my inspiration after that!

But back to Halloween!  Friday evening after work we got Timmy and Tyler into their costumes and met Jenny at her school for their annual Halloween Parade.  It was a great event, the teachers all dressed up and stood at their classroom doors with candy and the students paraded around the school, trick-or-treating!  I took Timmy around several of the hallways before we settled into Jenny's class to play with her smart-board and other activities.  Timmy thoroughly enjoyed it, it's good having an Aunt that teaches Kindergarten!

From there we went to dinner with Elena and Al, but Timmy didn't want to take his costume off!  (Last year, if you remember, we couldn't get him into it!)  He got lots of smiles from the staff and patrons!

Monday I managed to swing by Mom's house for about 5 minutes to take pictures while Timmy and her scooped out a pumpkin and began carving it!  Timmy still doesn't like getting his hands in the goop... I have taught him well!  ;)

Timmy's "mean face" was the inspiration for the pumpkin!

After work I got the boys into their costumes at my parents and Mom helped me pose them for their annual costume photo-op.  Then she and I took them around to a few neighbors houses.

Our next stop was Tim's dad's house, where we met up with Jenny, Brett, and Brayden for dinner and the majority of our trick-or-treating.  Brayden was absolutely adorable in his costume, and when he ran his arms, all four of them, flapped like wings!  It was too cute!  Timmy and Brayden had a blast running from door to door and both did great with saying "Trick-or-treat" at each door and Timmy threw in the occasional, "Happy Halloween!"  Timmy also enjoyed passing candy out to the other kids and took notice of their costumes.  I think Bumble Bee was his favorite, but he did say that Batman could beat Bumble Bee up.

We wrapped up the evening at Elena's house for a few more pictures and a few more neighbors houses.

When we got home Timmy seemed very happy with his haul!