Halloween

Our Halloween Day started at 6:20 AM with Ayden trying to reorganize the playroom. He had the hall light on and wasn't the necessarily the quietest about it, as he was hucking the toys out of the toy boxes. Not that I minded his intentions, just his timing. The kids knew that if the play room wasn't cleaned up, and by cleaned up I mean everything out of the toy boxes and put in the right totes, there would be NO Halloween for them. So I sent Ayden back to his room to do something quieter and asked, no pleaded for him to not wake up his sisters. I guess I didn't plead hard enough because about 10 minutes later Lauryn was at my bedside needing to go potty (yes, she is potty trained, Hallelujah). So off to the potty we go and then into the kitchen for breakfast. I throw some cereal in front of her and head back to bed. In my mind I am thinking today is going to be a doosy!! We had to gut the playroom, make sugar cookies to take to a Halloween party after trunk or treat, but the first thing we had to do was get the girls' hair into sponge curlers so they would look like real princesses for the big trunk or treat at the church. So while watching a good disney movie we rolled their lovely locks into curlers. I love seeing my girls with them in their hair. It reminds me of when I was little and my older sister put them in my hair. I always came out looking like Shirley Temple, and not in a good way. But I digress.

SOOO cute in their rollers!! All they need now is a housecoat and they are ready to hit the town.

Ayden wanted at first to be a pirate for Halloween, but when he saw the swords that went with the Ninja costume he changed his mind pretty quick. A man has his priorities right!! He was pretty excited to get all dressed up. He kept counting down the hour until it was time to get ready!!

One of these kids is not like the others.... Lauryn remember has been up since around 6:30 this morning so she is hitting her "I don't want to do anything you tell me to". She did not want to stand and get her picture taken with the other kids at all. I put her next to Ayden and she lost it. So needless to say she didn't get her individual shot and I had to throw her over my shoulder to get her in the car. (Ryan thinks Ayden looks like a terrorist in this picture, especially with the look in his eyes!!)

Lauryn was such a beautiful Aurora, with her red face, and her tears and her lopsided hair (she had tried to pull it out)!! I know I will look back on these pictures in 5 years or maybe 10 and laugh. But after a long day of cleaning and baking and refereeing fights, I was done. I wasn't laughing at all. I know you are also thinking hey there are two sleeping beauties and yes there are. That was another of Lauryn's finer moments when she insisted on being Aurora because that happened to be the first princess costume we came upon. Well Meysa had already chosen to be that princess and Lauryn had chosen to be Cinderella (this was all agreed upon before leaving the house). That was not to be the case any longer. So at least we had two different Aurora dresses.

Little Wyatt, our little pumpkin patch as Lauryn called him. He was pretty cute. The kids were trying to get him to laugh and I was trying to catch it on film, not a great combo!!

"What you talkin' about Willis"? He is so dang cute!!

This is the HAPPY Aurora!! She was so beautiful and I decided after putting the slightest amount of mascara on her eyelashes that I am pushing back the age that she gets to wear makeup. Holy Cow!!

Well we went to the church for the annual Trunk or Treat and when we got there these were the only two kids that were not sacked out. They had fun going from trunk to trunk all by themselves.

And this is our cranky Aurora. She was asleep about 5 minutes after we left our house. Ryan came by the church and took her home, while Ayden, Meysa, Wyatt and I went to a friends house for a Halloween party. Ryan said she came home and went right to sleep. What a bummer Halloween for Lauryn. There is always next year though!!!