Halloween

Halloween was a treat this year. No major costume designs but four happy and sugar-loaded kids. We started the day at our coop and then went to trick or treat at Sue's house.   

Lydia decided that she wanted to be a black cat and after some deliberation Lucy decided to be a witch. Hilariously, for a long time Lucy would say that she wanted to be a "table" for Halloween. (She would usually say this as she planked her body across two objects/chairs.) Then she said she wanted to be a hyena. Thankfully I found the costume Lydia wore when she was 3 in 2015, and Lucy was pleased as punch to be a witch. I laughed when I just went back and found the old blog post because in that post I talk about how I wanted Austin to match Lydia's witch costume, and what goes with a witch? A Cat! Austin ended up being a bat, but Lydia and Lucy were darling together. 





Austin wanted to be a shark but none of the homemade shark ideas were satisfying to him, so we found this shark costume and he was happy. (Other than he REALLY wanted to get a blow-up air-filled shark costume, but it was an adult size and so I talked him out of it.) 

Caleb? Well.. Caleb wanted to be a Volcano. I wasn't sure how we were going to pull that together until we were at my parents house in Morgan and my Grandma Knowles heard us talking about it. She went into her room and came out with this amazingly perfect shirt. We stuck a pool noodle in the bottom, added a mountain headpiece (at Caleb's insistence), and colored Caleb's too-long hair red. It was perfect and he was the happiest of all the kids this Halloween. 

Austin and Caleb's costumes went well together because Austin was a shark swimming in the ocean around Caleb's volcano. The kids were happy with their costumes and seeing them happy made me happy. 

We had a special Halloween dinner of spaghetti and mandarin oranges. I made some special candles that had secret messages in them after the wax started melting and that was fun. (Lydia's said "meow", Austin's said "Trick", Caleb's said "Treat", Lucy's said "L (heart), David's said "I love you" and mine said "Boo". 

We love trick or treating in our neighborhood, and even though we missed the Haderlies trick or treating with us, we had a good time visiting with our neighbors. 

The next morning we counted and graphed our candy - per homeschooling tradition. I want to start getting some data for a line chart over the course of several years, so below is our candy data. Overall a really wonderful Halloween! 





Lucy 54 Pices - Most Orange (12)

Caleb 58 Pieces - Most rainbow (color of the candy on the inside) (25)

Austin 133 Pieces - Most red (32)

Lydia 155 Pieces - Most red and blue.