rw-Halloween approacheth

He'd make a cool Prince Charming too...with some armour and a sword in a scabbard?

Riley's going as a fun witch.  I am going to attempt to make the costume, which will probably mean my mom will save me at the last minute.  My cousin dressed up her girls and they looked so adorable.

Cute!

I truly think I permanently BROKE Eli's ability to enjoy the costume part of Halloween when he was a baby. I put him in this and he has NEVER forgiven or forgotten. I honestly think this is why he balks at costumes until the last minute and ONLY does it to get the candy LOL!

 Goodness, that's precious!  But I can say he doesn't look happy...

he did nothing BUT cry...the entire time LOL!! We took it off and he was happy as a clam. Thankfully it didn't seem to put him off ice cream...just Halloween costumes. LMBO.

We're going to a fun match, the weekend before, so I want to dress Bean up as something. Last year, I dressed her as a My Little Pony, and (can you believe this?!?!?) it did not go over great. I even rainbow streaked her hair, and put glitter tattoos on both hips.

omg Gina, that is the sweetest ice cream cone I've ever seen!!!!!

That ice cream cone is HILARIOUS!  Rofl So cute.

This neighborhood has the most trick or treaters I've ever had.  I think I had around 40ish last year?  And it was drizzly and raining.  I think I'll splurge and get some of the nice candy to hand out this year.

I have a costume for River picked out.  The others may luck out.  Riv's going to some of the doggie costume contests.  I might wear mine and let him wear his when we pass out candy.

I'll keep the others crated with bone b/c they hate the doorbell ringing so much.

sl2crmeg

Do they celebrate in school? If they do at my school I'll probably go Griff's route and get an Old Navy t-shirt to wear so the kids don't think I'm a total no-fun-er, but I don't dress up, or dress the dogs up. Tiki was the cutest witch last year, though.

Meg, I would check with the teacher you are with about your specific school. Within Philadelphia, this varied pretty widely, and most of the suburban district I know of where I work with students do celebrate. In Philly though, one school I was at they couldn't actually say Halloween because that section of the city had a high population of Jehovah's witnesses we don't celebrate it. In the school I did my student teaching in, it was celebrated, but not as much as it was when I went to school, or to the extent that I see it celebrated in the schools around me. In the one school, it would have been totally inappropriate for a teacher to wear a costume, and only one kid in the class did. In the other school, teachers didn't do elaborate costumes, but a Halloween shirt, or those little cat ear headband type things were cool. In the burbs, I see teachers dressed in actual costumes, so long as they are appropriate. When  worked in a private residential school, in our building we had our class dressed in theme, so I had to make costumes for everyone. So glad I don't have to do that anymore.  

Kindredspirits

I'm SO excited about Halloween! Not so much for myself, but for my kiddos. Nevyn is dressing up as a T-Rex and Aistlinn is dressing up as raggedy anne. I'm also throwing a huge Halloween party at my house for the kiddos. And I'm doing a photoshoot of my kids and nieces in their Halloween costumes next week, I'll post some pictures when their done! I know its a little early, but the air is already crisp so we want to get nice pictures before the snow comes . And I can't deny I love dressing up too! I'm going to be Robin Hood this year again and my DH wants to go as Bender (from futurama). And ya, trick or treating in my neighborhood has died down. Last year I think I had five kids come to my door. I had alot of chocolate to eat the next day....poor me LOL

Going to derail this thread but Nevyn? Where did they come up with that name?  (I may actually know the answer but want to see)

It started with my husbands old website he had on Angelfire, his site name had 'Nevyn' in it and I liked it. He said it was from a book he used to read, can't remember what its called, some sort of Fantasy book. Anywho, I liked the name but we were set on an Irish name because my DH is half Irish. We searched around for the meaning of Nevyn and found out it is an Irish name Both my kids names were inspired by fantasy books and we lucked out with both of them being Irish names.

eta- Just talked to my Dh he said the name is from  a book called 'Daggerspell' 

I got half price tickets to Scarehouse

It's supposedly one of the BEST haunted houses, like top 20 in the country!  And it's down the hill from us :)  Tix are $18 regular price, but Groupon had them for $9 so I get to go!!!!!  yayayayayay.  Love haunted houses, and it had better live up to it's reputation!  $18/each was just a little too much last year, but I couldn't resist this time for the special.

 The ice cream cone is precious!  Can I say how bitter I am that the baby isn't going to be born until December and, thus, cannot be dressed in the teeny, tiny cute Halloween outfits and costumes? Instead I have to wait until next year, when he'll be closing in on a year.