Happy Halloween

Halloween around here was a bit thrown together. We finally carved the pumpkin we got weeks ago from the patch. I have a pretty nasty cold so was not very energetic yesterday. Len is working at the cabin with Keith so it was just Karen and I. I had Jo draw on the face and then I cut it out. I had to improvise a bit as his drawing was not cutting friendly... but there was distinctly a nose, mouth and two eyes. He also drew his name as he is so used to doing that at school now. He gave it some hair for good measure as well.

Thanks to Logan for passing down his costumes so our boys had something to wear. They looked pretty cute. When I was going through the box of costumes, the first one I pulled out was a cow. Somehow Asher heard "cowboy" and was convinced that's what he was going to be. I had some dress-up stuff that was cowboy so I tried to talk him into that a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think he really understood what a cowboy was. In the end, the scarecrow worked out fine. He didn't want to wear the hat, but I told him they wouldn't give him candy if he didn't wear it!! (hey, the outfit was nothing without the hat!) So then he wore it without a problem. Josiah was pretty unfocused and did lots of yelling on our trick-or-treating outing, but that's part of life with him lately. We went to his 3 teacher's houses, but none of them were home. We finally visited Emily and Joyce and they enjoyed that of course and got tons of candy as we were their only visitors. They didn't talk about the candy at all today so we'll be using it as dessert for the next few weeks (if Len and I don't eat it all first!)