November, a birthday party the third weekend in November and Thanksgiving and the twins' birthday and baptism the weekend after that. I give all of this as an explanation for the lack of effort which went into this year's costumes. Are you ready?
MINIONS! As most of you know, we already owned the hats so I just had to purchase yellow shirts and overalls and then cut out and sew the Gru "G" on the fronts of the overalls. We are at the local comic book and game store in the picture because we went to the Halloween activities downtown on Saturday afternoon. This was fun and we got tons of comments about our cute minion family. I'm learning that when you have a lot of something, even something that is less impressive, it makes it more awesome. I could probably just dress everyone in grey sweatsuits, but because there are seven of us people would say, "Awww, look at that family of sweatsuits!" Anyway, Marc was a big hit because most of the little kids at the event knew "Dr. Ricks" and were totally tickled to see him dressed up as a minion. He was even waving his black gloved hands and saying things like "Bello!" and "Banana!" That man loves his patients.
When we got home, I made skull shaped pancakes by request of my boys.
They informed me that they were "pretty good, but the heads are a little lumpy". Elitists. You try making skulls complete with teeth out of thick pancake batter!
Then, of course it was time to light up the pumpkins and go trick-or-treating. Our friends came over to trick-or-treat with us and the boys were not disappointed by the disgusting amounts of candy they brought home including full-size candy bars and cans of soda.
Here are the traditional before and after pumpkin pictures. We carved these on Sunday so I was happy they made it the six days and were still beautiful, I mean scary, for Halloween.
Gabriel went the very traditional route, but I love the eyebrows. Also, can I just say that I love the fall colors outside? So pretty.
David John drew a monster with a zillion eyes and three mouths and several horns. It also has a beard way down there at the bottom. I don't know about you but I think that big mouth is pretty scary. The pumpkin is pretty scary too.
Benjamin wanted the tallest pumpkin. He drew a face with two eyes, a nose, a mouth, some hair and a funky hat on top of that. However, the rest of think this looks like a big monster with two lava eyes at the top and a big open mouth showing us the person he just ate. Take your pick.
Tobias drew a bunch of lines which somehow ended up looking like a cool diagram of lungs and heart. Maybe we've got a future doc here.
The boys have asked that I leave their Gru symbols on their overalls so they can go to school as minions whenever they want to. I'm okay with that as long as they aren't fighting over bananas in the hallways. Happy Halloween!
BONUS FOOTAGE:
Some of the boys were pretty hilarious when I was trying to get pictures of them with their pumpkins. Here are some that didn't make the official cut:
Gabe was having a hard time keeping those eyes open. Church will do that to you.
Elijah went all Jaws on me. Shark attack!
For David John, taking pictures is, apparently, excruciating.
Benjamin is very afraid someone is going to steal his pumpkin. He is very concerned. He is worried. He is taking his pumpkin and hitting the road.
"Tobias, take your hand out from between your legs," I said. "Yes!" said Benjamin, "Make your hands robot hands! Like this!"
"No," I said, "just take your hand and put it on your knee."
Tobias, in montone, "I have robot hands!"
Facepalm.
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