Modderhood: Halloween 2011 in Pictures

Halloween was awesome!!! The entire month of October, actually, was awesome.

Here are some pics from Halloween night. Sadly, the twins were sick. In half of the pics I took, Scoutie Girl looks like she's coughing up a lung. :( But, it was supposed to be their first official year of trick-or-treating, so I couldn't keep them at home. I ended up letting them trick or treat sown half of one street.

Scout went as Red Riding Hood. Sawyer was the Big Bad Wolf. I gave Scout two options: Red Riding Hood or Tinkerbell. I thought for sure she'd choose Tinkerbell since she had just watched the movies. But, when I showed her the pictures, she pointed vigilantly at Red and said, "Dis one! Dis one! Dis one!"

One of my favorite parts of the night was how Merrick took it upon himself to show his baby brother and sister how to obtain candy from the neighbors. He would run ahead to a house, get his candy, then come back for Scout and Sawyer and help walk them to the door (since they were a little slower than he was).

My favorite moment from Halloween night was when Merrick some-what threatened one of our neighbors. The conversation went like this:

Neighbor (as he's passing out candy) - I like your costume! What are you?

Merrick - A ninja.

Neighbor - Cool! Can you show me some of your moves?

Merrick (totally serious) - No. I might hurt you.

I about fell over laughing!

Anyway. Here are the pics:

Red Riding Hood picking flowers for her Granny.

My favorite pic of the night. What a beautiful Red.

It was nearly impossible to get a pick of Sawyer in his Big Bad Wolf costume. I was so thankful, however, that he loved his hat (and thankful that BabyGap just so happened to have a wolf hat out at the time!). I anticipated him ripping it off every 5 minutes, but he didn't.

Merrick with his pumpkin. He wanted to stage the picture this way, so that it looks like he and the pumpkin are talking.

Merrick wanted a one eyed pumpkin.

I made a mustache pumpkin and a rainbow bundt cake. The inside of the cake was orange and purple. Yum!

Merrick in his ninja costume. I actually took him with me and let him look through the costumes this year and he chose this. It's perfect, really, since he's been so into tai kwon do.