Trick or treat!

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun weekend filled with activities, including "Trunk or Treat" at the rec center and a party with dear friends.

Quinn was a sock monkey. Actually, this isn't actually a "costume" but a sweater romper that I thought was too darling to pass up. He'll wear it other times throughout the season but for today we added a little pink nose and called it a costume!

Sophia was a cat - again. SHe has decided that she will alternate between her 2 favorite costumes - cat and last year's jellyfish - forever. We'll see if that holds true next year! If so, makes it easy on me!
Good thing she skipped the jellyfish this year - there was another one at trunk or treat!

Caleb had several last minute changes to his costume. First he wanted to be a character from the Scholastic Bone book series
but without a mask he was worried no one would know what he was - just a kid with a star on his shirt and a white face! He was going to stuff himself into his old Ninja costume from 1st grade when Mike remembered a doctor costume stashed in the basement long ago and set to work brainstorming ideas with Caleb. Doctor? Vet? Albert Einstein? Mad scientist? Inventor?
Some quick thinking thanks to movie night last weekend and - literally 20 minutes before we were heading out the door!!- he became......

Flint Lockwood - the main character/inventor in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs!! (Yes, I know the name tag is wrong. We put "Flynn" but this decision was made on the fly so we typed it out and looked up the real name after the fact! Oh well.)

And we couldn't forget his best friend and monkey side-kick, Steve (complete with monkey thought translator)! Caleb didn't carry him around but it was cute anyway. I think Caleb's favorite part was the crazy hair. He was a little annoyed that some people couldn't figure out his costume but it was unique and when people did figure it out they thought it was brilliant and he was very proud.

I was in charge of the class party for Sophia's class and was too busy to take pics but did manage to get one of her with her teacher (LOVE her!!!)

Sophia and Miss Boocks

Quinn was wiped out after the morning party so he didn't wake up in time to make it back for Caleb's party but we did head back after school to get a pic of him with his teacher, as well. The teachers all dressed as bees with the principal dressed as the Queen Bee. Cute!

Caleb and Miss Pauken

We stopped at Grandma and Grandpa's house to show off the costumes since Quinn was unlikely to make it up for Trick or Treating then daddy took the big kids out after dinner while I put Quinn to bed and manned the door.

A few more pics...