Halloween - Thrice

We had three Halloweens here. It was kinda crazy, but the kids got to have 3 different costumes... It also helped the Shelly had gotten sick on Thursday night. We weren't sure we'd make it to anything that weekend - and it was supposed to be a busy weekend. Turns out we're just mean and selfish parents who took our sick kids to places they were too tired to be and subjected all those unsuspecting kids to germs unknowingly! [insert evil laugh]. Actually, it was wishful thinking and a bit of self-fulfilling prophesy that led to that. We didn't actually mean to do any of it.

The first was Friday afternoon at Googleween.

Emily was a wrinkly elephant

Anyone who's seen us in previous Halloweens will recognize this as the 'baby costume' We're nothing if not original...

I had to get a few shots of her first costume... Not sure why

Shelly wanted in on the action

Here's Mark with the kids in Google's lobby. Emily the Elephant. Shelly the Pumpkin. Jason the ... hurricane in a costume closet? ... We're as confused as you are...

Grandpa donned a wig to get in on some action and had fun showing the kids around.

Then we had to take a picture of Grandpa in the Lobby - he did have a wig on, you know!
The kids seemed fine here.

This was the pumpkin that Grandpa carved for the Google Pumpkin Carving Contest. Even though all of us (even Emily) voted for him, he didn't win...

Shelly was so tired that she fell asleep on the couch in the Google lunchroom. Poor thing. That pumpkin costume she was wearing was also so hot that she was quite burning up. We stripped her down to normal clothes and left right after she woke up. Poor girl!

After we got home she fell asleep on the couch at home around 1 or 2 and was still asleep when Grandpa got home from work around 5:30. We had debated all afternoon about whether or not to wake her up to go to Trunk-or-Treat with the church that night. She had been looking forward to it all month (really, we had to count down the days on the calendar for her often), there were going to be people she knew there, her Sunbeam teachers had been handing out fliers for the last two weeks and were likely to talk about it on Sunday. I'd rather go to Trunk-or-Treat than regular trick-or-treating. She was sick, and rather tired. It might take more energy than she had and make her worse. She could be contagious and then we'd be infecting all of her friends. It was such a hard decision. Grandpa finally helped me make the decision I wanted to make, but couldn't bring myself to actually do. He woke her up and got her excited to go. So, we went!

Here's Shelly in a Superman Costume and Jason in Sunglasses (it's all we could get him to wear)

The next night - after carving pumpkins and then resting all day - the kids felt up to going actual trick-or-treating. So, we got them in costumes and off we went. We didn't go too far. Around the cul-de-sac, over to the Ainsworths, down to the graveyard and back. Most of the houses we pass on our walks. Towards the end the kids buckets were full and heavy and the kids were still a bit sick, so that was a good amount. They now have about 4 times more candy than they'll eat in a year...

Shelly the Pumpkin - again. Jason is Superman. We actually got a costume on him this time!

Here are the kids eating dinner and watching a movie while they try to feel better after feeling sick and eating too much candy...