Feelin' So Fly: ALL THINGS PUMPKINS/HALLOWEEN

A few days before Halloween and in between my work trips and baseball tournaments, I managed to stop off, buy a couple of pumpkins and let the kids carve away. This year I bought the templates and those very cheap carving utencils which seemed to occupy them more and because of the cheapness of the utencils, we managed to keep all of our fingers. Always a bonus don't you think?

Colson misunderstood the drawing and we almosts had a disaster on our hands. Well it would have been a disaster for him since he tends to have meltdowns over things like that but in reality it would have just been a pumpkin gone wrong...there ARE more pressing issues in the world I'm certain! After he "traced" the design incorrectly and I got him back on track, he had a nice finished product. We started on these Friday night and because of the mess up, Colson had to finish his Saturday morning before baseball.

Calli's also turned out cute and with very few glitches along the way.

We also had a pumpkin carving with Colson's class on Halloween morning. I again brought the pumpkin, utencils and templates and the boys picked out a ghost. Our group consisted of Colson (normal name), Hoochi (What were his parents smoking when they named him?) and Kai (Isn't he missing the you...like Calliou?). Regardless, his teacher gave me these 3 boys and they set to work on their masterpiece.

A few weeks ago, on one of our free Saturday few hours, I took the kids to the Halloween store to buy their costume. I have now made a pack and I'm putting it in writing so I can find it next year. I will not buy the kids costumes until the day before Halloween. I know our pickings will be limited but it seems my kids always change their mind. This year, I got Colson this cute boxer costume. He wanted to be scary but I reminded him that we might be with Cam and Hudson. He completely changed his disposition selecting an non scary costume so as not to scare the boys. He kept blaming his unselecting of scary costumes on them but I almost felt like he was so elated to blame it on them. Like he really didn't want to be something scary (because he's such a scaredy cat) but felt like he had to. So on Halloween night, we determined that it just wasn't going to work to meet up with my sister and the boys and Colson goes into full blown pout mode. He was so mad that he wasn't something scary that he just came out in this

Really? A baseball player? And a Rebels baseball player at that? Don't you think you wear that uniform enough? And what about the $40 I wasted on the very cute boxing costume? Folks pick you battles and this wasn't one I chose to fight over. Although I did tell him what I thought of his last minute costume switch.

The other issue I have is that my kids don't ever make it simple on me. They always want to do their own thing and expect me to work out the logistics. So I ended up dropping Calli off with one of her friends in another neighborhood and we met up with Karson (the crazed Cowboys fan) and his family.