Spooktacular Halloween

It feels like a luxury to have Halloween on a Saturday. Instead of rushing to get the kids into their costumes and off to school, throwing a Halloween party at school, getting everyone home and fed in record time and out the door to trick-or-treat, we got up and had a leisurely breakfast, cleaned the house, did some boo bubbles (more on that in a minute) and then prepared for a Halloween dinner without feeling pressed for time. It was great!

Now for some details about our activities.

Nathan’s science teacher took advantage of the holiday to teach her students some seriously cool science involving dry ice and soap bubbles. Nathan came home all jazzed up and wanted to try it out at home. Over the week before Halloween, Kev helped him gather the necessary supplies and make his very own “boo bubble” maker. The following pictures should prove to you that science is totally fun:

Daniel and Nathan have passed our family cut off for trick-or-treating so instead they did baptisms for the dead (helping the dead on Halloween-I love it!) and had dinner and a party with the older cousins. The big kid party wasn’t a costume event, but Daniel and Nathan got to wear their costumes to school on Thursday (they had no school yesterday) and Daniel also wore his for his band concert earlier in the week.

Daniel as Zoot (the sax player from The Muppet Show)

Nathan as The Phantom of the Opera

The younger ones gathered at our house for dinner and the evening’s begging for treats (and doughnuts, and hot dogs…our neighborhood is a great place for trick-or-treating!). We ate bloody fingers and had shrunken heads floating in our warm cider.

We let Matthew and the older part of the trick-or-treating crew take off on their own and they had a great time.

Matthew as The Shadow

The adults hung out with Malia and Kate and it was nice to move at their pace rather than Matthew’s pace. They had a great time and by the time we had traveled the most popular locales, Malia was ready to be done. Let’s face it-glass slippers just aren’t made for walking. But she had a great time!

Malia as Cinderella

Malia and Kate