halloween

i know this is a bit late for a halloween post. i just took down halloween decorations today, too. i guess it's just been like that around here lately. remember that cold/flu i mentioned last week? i kindly passed it along to everyone in my family. with six people under one roof, you know that takes a while to run its course. joe and nat are at the peak of stuffiness right now. 

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so halloween... it started off with a call from preschool saying ben wasn't quite himself--he was asking to lay down during play time.
uh oh.

i went over to him as soon as i could, which was about 20-30 minutes later. he had just thrown up.
boo.

i called joe to come and get him, since i didn't want to expose nana or natalie to those yucky germs.

joe stayed with ben all day at our house while nana took care of natalie, taylor, and zachary at her house. (it also happened to be parent-teacher conference week, so we had a minimum day.)

after my conferences were over i picked up a pizza and headed home. i dropped the pizza off for joe to put in the oven and went and picked up the big boys and natalie at my mom's house.

we ate pizza and right around this time, ben started to perk up. halloween excitement was definitely in the air.
hooray!



joe took all three boys trick or treating. yep, even sick ben got to visit a few houses. then he came home and helped me and nat answer the door and hand out treats. he made it very clear that nothing was scary to him. my big brave ben.



when the big boys came back, they had lots of fun stories to share. so did ben and i. halloween was a lot of fun. somehow, even with a sick kid, it was the most stress-free halloween we've had yet.

here are some pictures of our tricksters.

































zach was dash from the incredibles, not to be confused with mr. incredible.
many people thought taylor was tron, but he is a non-scary-light-up-guy. (he wanted to be a pistol that shoots tic tacs.)
ben was going to be black spider man (not venom), but on halloween night he decided to be a cowboy.
our tiniest trickster was a flower. as you can see, getting a photo of her was not an easy task!


happy halloween... two weeks late!