Monday, October 31, 2016

Happy Halloween! Everybody had a wonderful Halloween. Chase started off the holiday by deciding he didn't want to wear his Angry Bird costume. First, he didn't want to wear the pillows, then he didn't want to wear the costume at all. He wanted to wear his skeleton costume. Good for Mama to think of having a back-up costume. Mama rules! With the skeleton costume, Chase didn't want to wear the mask, hands or feet. Mama eventually got him to wear the mask for a few pictures, but that was all. After Mama and Nanaw took Chase to school, they took Sam for a walk. Then they went back to school to help with Chase's Halloween party. It was wonderful fun. Mama was in charge of the cookie decorating station, and everybody loved it because they got to eat the cookies after they decorated them. The boys and girls also played a ring toss game, did a craft where they painted their hands black and made a spider, played pin the nose on the pumpkin and read books together. They had lots of treats and candy. One of the moms made super cute orange buckets with a ghost and their names on them. Chase used his as his Trick or Treat bucket. After the party, Mama and Nanaw went to Costco, Dollar Tree, McDonald's and Papa Murphy's pizza place. Mama carved the two pumpkins and baked the pumpkin seeds but unfortunately the seeds burned. After dinner (pumpkin-shaped pizza for Mama and Chase and white bean chicken chili for Nanaw and Daddy), Chase went trick or treating -- first with Mama and Daddy and then with Mama and Nanaw. The little fellow was really worn out and kept asking if they could go to the last house -- it was very precious. All in all, an absolutely perfect Halloween -- especially the weather, which was pleasantly warm.