Our Little Monsters

Halloween with little kids is pretty awesome.  We had a lot of fun with halloween celebrations during the last week.  Over the weekend we went to two different halloween parties.  Our monster costumes were a huge hit.  Brigham looked so cute waddling around in his, and Lexi was adorable crawling around in hers.  

We visited Hee Haw Farms with cousins and friends.  Brigham loved seeing all the animals, riding on the big slide, swinging on the horse swings, riding on the hayride, picking up pumpkins and throwing them, riding the little train, and especially playing in the corn box.

My mom hosted her annual chili dinner and had the kids dress up so she could see their costumes.  She helped me make Brigham's costume.  And by help, I mean she did most of it.  I designed the face and painted the hat.  She did the hard stuff like come up with a pattern and sew it all together.  I love the way it turned, out and I love that she was willing to help me on sort of short notice.

Sully

Mike Wazowski

On Halloween I took the kids to a pumpkins patch with my mom.  It was a great time to go because we pretty much had the place to ourselves.  Brigham could take his sweet time walking through the patch admiring the pumpkins and corn stalks and goats and chickens.  He would point things out say "wow" and then start jabbering about them.

 Brigham loved wearing his costume around, especially the hat.  He would waddle around and pat his stuffing.  It was pretty funny to watch him try to sit down and stand back up while wearing it, but he got pretty good at it by Halloween night.  He looked really cute walking around in it, but we only wanted to trick or treat to a few neighbors and some of them were a couple blocks away.  We didn't want it to take forever (he gets super distracted when walking around the neighborhood) so we decided we needed to transport him with some wheels.  We had borrow a bigger stroller to make room for him.

He liked knocking on the doors as long as there wasn't anything too scary on the front of them.

He was so excited to get glow sticks, M&Ms, and 3 Musketeers.  It was such nice weather that we were able to keep the monsters outside on the porch to hand out candy to the trick or treaters.  Eventually we got Brigham to come down from his sugar high (picture him running around the house using his glow sticks as drum sticks on his hard hat) and go to bed for the night (with his glow sticks clasped in his hands).