trick-or-treating: take 2

as we have done every year, we went over to mom and dad's house on halloween for dinner and then some good 'ol trick-or-treating.
the weather has been really cold here but it turned beautiful for us on halloween. i think every year since we've had hayden, the weather has been great. i had gone out and bought several pairs of thermal underwear for spiderman but he didn't need any of them since it was 60 that day! in fact, we were getting completely annoyed with all of the mosquito's that nite!
jenn and rainah were already at mom and dad's when we got there. it was so nice out we all went outside and let the kids fight over the trucks and balls for awhile. rainah willing gives hers up and really needs to start becoming a bit more aggressive if she's going to ever keep a toy that she wants when she's around my kids.
i discovered some mushrooms that let off some poisonous green smoke when you popped them so of course i showed hayden and he, in turn, showed talan. hayden and talan sat there popping gaseous mushrooms with sticks for quite awhile.
we eventually pulled them out of their coma's and brought them inside, washed them up and had them eat some dinner before we got them dressed in their costumes one last time.
rainah was NOT a fan of hers and cried as soon as jenn put it on. she looked completely miserable, defeated and adorable all at the same time.
we then headed out to the front yard to get some pictures....which didn't go nearly as well as last year when rainah and talan were 2 babies that couldn't really move.
dave showed up just in time to try to help our helpless picture cause and tina made it just as the kids were walking up to the very first house. hayden's first few years trick-or-treating, it was him with about 5 adults. at least now we have 3 kids!
rainah was pretty much not happy almost the whole time she was out there. some of it was because she just wanted to follow dogs that were taking walks but she couldn't keep up with them. but later that nite we found out that she also had a bit of a fever.
hayden did great walking up to all of the houses saying "trick-or-treat" and then "thank you" all by himself. towards the end of the evening he would then tell everyone "happy halloween!"
talan had a great time too. he actually held dave's hand and walked for awhile but he kept tripping and was walking much to slow to keep up with hayden so then dave put him on his shoulders. eventually i ended up with him and let me tell you....he's heavy. jenn, rainah and mom headed back early and eventually talan was moving so slow with me (and the fact that people wanted to talk to me and become my friend when we went up to their house....so i look friendly, who knew?!) that dave, hayden and tina finished up going to the rest of the houses and made it back to mom's WAY before we did.
i put talan down to walk and he would look like he was just going to keep walking straight down the street but then would decided he really did want more candy, and up we'd go to another house. he has as much energy has hayden has always had and he could have kept walking if we had more time!
after the trick-or-treating was done we all met back at mom and dad's where dave and tina ate their dinner and hayden dumped out all of his candy and tried telling the babies not to step in it or take it. after a bit we put them all to bed and then played a game of catan in which tina won.
i am saying all of this because jessica feels as though she missed out (and she did) and then she yelled at me about not getting my blog up soon enough.
we had a great halloween and will be eating candy for months now. and it's great not having to steal hayden's candy since we have all of talan's to eat!
thanks for dinner and the use of your neighborhood, mom and dad!

hayden and his great ideas:

hayden figured it'd be even funnier on talan but talan didn't think so:

he gave up:
tried getting a picture of the babies. that worked as well out of costume as it did in costume:
rainah has had enough:

a rare shot of rainah not crying with her costume on:

spiderman's mug shot:
these are what we got. i'm impressed we got these:






let the trick-or-treating begin!:



he just decided to lay down in the street. i have pictures and video of hayden in his chicken costume at about this same age laying in the middle of the street:


tina was into posing that nite:





eatin' soup:

i think tina took this one...but it could have been hayden, he likes still life shots:
eating a cupcake that he made. actually he pretty much only licked off the frosting and took one bite:
yes talan, we think she's crazy too!:

jenn and rainah "smiling":
not sure if tina or hayden took this one, but it's funny:
there were about 5 of these pictures. hayden tells me his eyes were closed in every one because the light was too bright: