Halloween 2014

Halloween is always fun for our boys--even though I swore we weren't going to make a big deal of it when we had kids. Ha!

We didn't realize it at the time, but a friend and I took our boys to the zoo when they had all of the halloween fun out--including painting pumpkins and inflatables to jump in. Joshua had a really good time with all of it--even if it doesn't look like it in this picture. 

(As a side note, this is also the last day Luke wanted to nurse. He gave it up after this trip to the zoo.)

 Eli and Micah brought home information about their school library holding a pumpkin decorating contest. The only stipulation is that the pumpkin had to be a book character. I didn't really want to enter the contest, but the boys were so excited about it! It was fun to let them be creative and figure out a way to make their pumpkins look like the characters they chose. While the big boys worked, Joshua wanted to paint, too, of course!

 Micah wanted to make Otis the tractor from Otis and the Tornado. We decided the best way to do that was to paint three small pumpkins black for the tractor wheels.

 I cut out the cardboard pieces for the tractor body, Micah painted them and Paul drew the face.

 Eli wanted to paint a pumpkin green, so he went for a Yoda pumpkin. This first shade of green wasn't what he was looking for, so when it dried, we found another green he liked better and he got to paint it again.

 Eli had the idea to glue cotton on for Yoda's hair and Paul drew the face.

 We also carved pumpkins again this year.

 The boys scooped out the seeds for roasting.

 Paul is amazing and carved the pumpkins in the the characters the boys requested.

Do you know who chose which character?

 After much deliberation and getting down to the last minute for a homemade costume, Joshua finally decided to be Bob the Tomato for Halloween. This actually worked out great, since we already had that costume from when Micah wore it at 2 years. Joshua got to wear it to school for the "Let's Pretend" parade.

We went to our church's trunk or treat event again this year and the boys all loved being in costume!

Eli- Luigi, Micah-tornado, Joshua-Bob, Luke-pumpkin