Halloween

So Kylee started with a cold on Wed., gave it to me on Thur., and I graciously gave it to Bobby on Fri., and poor Tyler just didn't stand a chance against the 3 of us. By Sat. we were all miserably sick with colds and today poor Kylee started with it all over again. I can't even tell you how disappointed I was that our Halloween was ruined by runny noses, sore throats and fevers! Tyler was SO into it this year and I had a full day of fun things planned for him, starting with a wake-up call from one very wicked witch (me) and a full halloween breakfast served by one very spooky skeleton. But I could barely crawl out of bed in the morning much less put a costume on, and being that Tyler and Kylee were up ALL night long coughing and crying and waking each other up and so on, nobody was quite in the mood for festivities Sat. morning. I won't go on and on about how many things we didn't get to do on Halloween because it just makes me sad, and I'll just be thankful that we got to do a little something and Tyler loved it!

Last weekend our ward had our Halloween party and Tyler, Kylee and myself dressed up (Bobby barely got off work in time just to be there-and lets be honest even if he had he doesn't dress up). Tyler's top choices this year were #1. dinasour #2. skeleton, and of course since I waited until Oct. 1st to start looking for costumes I couldn't find a (cool) dinasour costume in his size anywhere! (and sorry, I don't make costumes...maybe one year) So we settled with his second choice of skeleton and he Loved his costume, asking to wear it everyday throughout the month of Oct. For Kylee, I mainly just wanted to find something that would keep her warm because I figured it would be freezing here, so I decided on a cute little lamb costume that she wore a total of 2 times and HATED both times I made her wear it. I actually only got like 2 pics from our ward party because Tyler was off running with the kids the whole time and Kylee refused to wear her costume for more than 5 min. I was a witch, decided upon by Tyler. I let him pick out the color of my tights and my hat because I wanted him to love everything about Halloween this year!

My friend Ashlie and I roasting marshmellows (my first time!-no comments ashlie and mindy, I think I've heard enough!)


This is the one and only picture he would take with me and as you can see, he's trying to fly out of my arms...we probably should have taken one all together before we left the house...


Ashlie and her cutie patootie ladybug Jaylie!


The fri. night before Halloween our apartment complex had a little Halloween party and I had promised Tyler all day that he was going to get to dress up and go to a Halloween party and he was SO excited about it. So even though Bobby was sick, sick, sick he dressed Tyler up and took him over to the party, but of course he only took 1 picture! That's okay, at least Tyler got to go!


Sat. morning Tyler spent like this:


But then I saw this little smile peeking out from behind the blanket and knew he was feeling a teensy weensy bit better


Sat. afternoon my friend Mindy called to see if I wanted to bring Tyler and come with them to the mall to do trick-or-treating. At that point Tyler didn't have a fever or runny nose anymore and I knew we weren't going to take him out in the cold that night so I decided that so he could at least have some experience this year trick-or-treating (our ward doesn't do a trunk or treat) the afternoon, inside, would be our best bet and I'm so glad I did! He was in heaven and loved looking at all the other kids in their costumes. He always very politely said, "trick or treat" and would then hold up his pumpkin for the candy. After they put it in he would say "thank you", look inside his pumpkin to make sure candy had been put inside and then he'd move on to the next store. We were out for about an hour and a half so I felt like he at least got a little taste of it this year and next year will be even better when him and Kylee can both go out and understand what's going on and have fun together!

Right before we left for the mall. I thought he'd really hate wearing the mask, but it was his favorite part of the costume!


That night I realized I hadn't got any pictures of Kylee in her costume and Tyler had been asking to put his on ever since we got home and I made him take it off, so I quickly dressed the two of them up just for some quick pictures. Poor Kylee, you can just see in her eyes that she is so sick!





I kept saying, "kylee, kylee look at me" and this is what she would do every time! Stubborn girl! :)


Finally, one eye...


...and yay, two eyes! This is the only picture where she looked up at me without putting her hand in front of her face.


Just pray that we can all get over this sickness soon. No sleep=grouchy mommy. Happy Halloween!!