Happy Halloween 2012!

We had a great Halloween!
  

We kicked off the holiday two Thursdays ago at a party at Dad’s work. I dressed up as a beagle, Hazel dressed up as a lion and Turner dressed up as a shark. We played some games and got lots of treats. Hazel was really scared by a guy in a werewolf costume, so we cut the party short and headed home, really excited about the prospect of more treats to come.

Our next Halloween celebration was Saturday afternoon. We drove downtown, dressed up again (this time Turner was a monkey and Mom dressed up as a runner, and Dad wore his animal costume) and headed to the Spooky Skedaddle 5K and Festival. This was a combination Halloween festival, 5K race, and fundraiser.  Mom entered the race so we could all have fun there. 

The festival was great. We started off with trick-or-treating and face painting, then ate candy while we danced to some fun tunes. Mom ran fast -- she placed second in her age group! She even won a trophy!  While she was running, we ran into movie star Ryan Gosling, who was filming a movie there.  When he saw Hazel and I chowing down on our candy in our costumers, he told his crew to film us for his new movie. 

After the race, we checked out three hot air balloons and looked at a fire truck. Hazel was pretty scared of all that and it was late, so we headed home, but it was really a blast. 

Speaking of Hazel, she's on page 12 here, in her lion costume.

Hazel and I drew a great
jack-o-lantern pattern for Dad

Sunday we carved our pumpkin with Dad.  Hazel drew the eyes and I drew the mouth, and then Dad carved what we drew.  It was a pretty silly jack-o-lantern.

Last week was one big party at school. Hazel had a party Tuesday, and she dressed up as a bunny. When we picked her up, she was still eating and was covered in spaghetti. Her teacher was nice enough to share cupcakes with all of us.

My party at school was Wednesday. At school, we warmed up for Halloween night by practicing trick-or-treating. We went to about a dozen rooms.

We wrapped up Halloween with trick-or-treating around our neighborhood Wednesday night. We started with a few neighbors, then set out with Mom for my teacher’s house. She told my class she wanted to see all of us, so her destination set our route. We stopped at lots of houses along the way, and after we saw my teacher, did a few more houses. Then we told Mom we were tired and wanted to go home. When we got back, we hit the rest of our neighbors on our street with Dad, ate some candy and hit the sack.

Since then, Hazel has not stopped talking about candy. She is candy crazy. This morning when Mom woke her up, before she was even awake, she said, “I’m trying to decide what kind of candy I want.”

We'll post all of our Halloween pictures in tomorrow's post.