Max Behind The Wheel

This is another video I took while waiting for my kids after school.

I once had to move my car really quickly and didn't have a chance to strap Max in his car seat.  We were only going to move a couple of feet so I didn't think there was any harm in putting him in my lap and driving those few feet.  When I started to drive and turn the wheel so slightly I got this loud squeal of delight from him.  He thought it was the best thing ever!

I was trying to recreate that laugh but didn't get it quite the same, but this video shows how happy he is to be behind the wheel.

Happy Halloween - Star Wars

 

This year my kids decided to dress up as a character on Star Wars.  I was surprised no one wanted to be Darth Vader.

My boys all wanted to be some sort of Jedi.  Bernadette, of course, wanted to be Princess Leia and Anne wanted to be Queen Amidalla (aka Darth Vader's mother).  If you are familiar with the movies, Queen Amidalla is quite extravagant in her wardrobe and make-up.

This year I felt like Halloween was an all day event instead of just an evening thing.  It all started the night before with the pumpkin carving.  After that, I stayed up and made cookies for Anne's Halloween party the next day.  I got an idea from watching the Food Network a few days ahead to make Witches' Fingers.


I thought they were absolutely cute, but wondered if it was too much for a Halloween festive snack?

The next day was going to the Halloween parade and then having to attend an after school haunted house party that Anne was face-painting for.

After that, the kids and I went home.  It was already 4:30!  I made a hot pot of chili, cleaned up the house a bit and started getting the kids ready for the evening. 

This year, my in-laws came over to pass out candy.  This was great because the kids love seeing their grandparents and sharing Halloween with them is special.  I'm always leaving a bucket outside for trick-or-treaters and it's always nice to be able to actually have someone answer the door. 

It got dark so quickly - so I had to get my pictures done!

We were a little disappointed in the headpiece - it's really flimsy plastic, but she looks really good nonetheless. 

 

I had fun putting her make-up on. Her costume improved a lot with the make-up!  Fun stuff.

Tommy is Luke Skywalker. 

 

 

This is his Jedi pose.

 

 

Patrick just chose to be a Jedi - no one in particular.  He's a young Jedi, I guess.

 

 

Eddie just woke up from a late afternoon nap and was a very cranky Jedi.  He was on the verge of going to the Dark side.

 

 

My cute little princess.  The costume actually had her buns attached to a big wig piece that looked so fake!  I just cut the buns off and sewed them onto a elastic headband.  Looked so much better!

 

 

Max broke tradition this year.  The baby usually wears a Santa costume, but he had to be Yoda this year.  Someone took a look at him and thought he was a bunny.  Bunny, I am not!

 

 

My Star Wars crew.

 

We had a great evening.  We went down another road this year which has a lot more traffic.  Tommy was hoping to run into some of his friends.  Halloween was pretty fancy schmancy on this road.  One house had two cotton candy machines passing out huge sticks of sugar out to every kid!  One house had an interactive game to get your candy and another road was sealed off so they could create a bonfire in the middle. 

 

It started to sprinkle in the middle of our trick-or-treating and definitely dampened the mood a bit.  My kids were getting tired.  Joe ended up finding us and joined us for the rest of the way.  That was the best part of the night for me!  When we got back to our house we were informed that our house got 70+ trick-or-treaters!  Wow, that's a lot.  Thank goodness I bought enough candy.

 

I'm a little upset I can't get my pictures to get larger.  Something is not working too well today on the world of BLOG!