October (picture catch-up 9)

Aren’t you proud of me for keeping up with this picture catch-up thing? I am.

Along with the pictures of Jacey’s birthday, pictures from September are nowhere to be found. (Not true. I’ve only looked on my own computer. They could very well be on Kellen’s computer or the external hard drive. I’m just too lazy to check there.) So here are pictures from October, which translates to: Halloween pictures.

As long as I have control over my kids’ Halloween costumes, they’ll go together. So this year, I let Jacey pick a costume from a book of patterns, and she chose Little Bo Peep. Rylan was going to be a lamb, either with blue insides of his ears, or as a black sheep–but Daddy vetoed that idea. Apparently sheep, even black ones, aren’t manly enough. So instead, we used the same costume and laboriously convinced Jacey that it could be for Little Miss Muffett instead, and Rylan was a spider. SO CUTE!!

Jacey got to dress up for her preschool Halloween party (she used a spider candy bucket), and she and Rylan both dressed up for Zoo Boo and trick-or-treating (I made her a candy bucket that looked like a bowl of curds and whey). We did Zoo Boo with a family from church–Ben is a year younger than Jacey–and we trick-or-treated with a bunch of families from church. I think there were 30 kids there. Jacey was a little slow following the big kids around, so that she sometimes had to skip houses and have her daddy pick her up and run her after the other kids, but she still had a great time.

Ready to go to preschool!

I made his costume. The extra legs are men’s socks!

I decorated the stroller. Rylan’s part was a spider web; Jacey’s was a tuffet.

The candy bucket. The curds were q-tip heads.

Decorating the little pumpkin at the pumpkin patch in the zoo.

Don’t know what this face was about, but it was cute!

It got too chilly for his spider costume, so we put on his Spiderman hoodie. Still on theme!

It’s out of focus, but I love the expression on her face!

I love that toothy grin!

Look at that spider crawling across the floor!

All done with trick-or-treating!