Halloween Tradition

I am hoping that Sammy is not trying to create a Halloween tradition of being sick and skipping all the fun, but it's 2 years running. Okay, the first year was not actually his fault and he wasn't sick, he was just 3 days old and so he and I skipped the festivities. This year however he was sick and miserable and not in the mood to wear his costume even for the 30 seconds it takes to snap a picture. Andi decided to be Cinderella this year, and we thought it would be very fitting to make Sammy Gus Gus. So I made him a little green hat with mouse ears and a tail, it was going to be super cute, but like I said, he ripped the hat off the second I put it on.
But I do have some cute pictures of our Cinderella, who was very excited about wearing mommy make-up and showing everyone her beautiful dress. After we got her all ready she ran to the mirror and did the whole exaggerated gasp thing and said "Oh I'm beautiful!"

She had a great time at the ward party playing games and getting her face painted, but wanted nothing to do with the spook alley Daddy was running downstairs.

After the party we went to my parents to pick up Sammy and she wanted to help hand out play-dough(my mom passes out little things of play-dough instead of candy) so she sat in the doorway and waited for kids to come up the walk. Lucky for us it's Bakersfield and even at 8 pm on Halloween it was nice enough outside for her to do that. About the time she started asking kids to come in and play with her, my mom thought it was a good idea for her to be done helping.
Yesterday I was making dinner while the kids were out back playing. I had Sammy in the swing and would give him a good push then run inside and work on dinner, then run back out. . . you get the picture. Apparently I took too long inside and Andi decided to help out. I got video of this, but blogger is being stupid and won't let me load it, so here is a picture which gives you an idea of what was going on back there while Mommy was inside.


Don't worry, Sammy was laughing hysterically as Andi twisted his swing up and let him go over and over again. Whenever he would do the dizzy head bob Andi would drop on the ground laughing at him. It's nice when they can play together and no one gets hurt.
Thad is actually home this week, yay! His trip got postponed for a few weeks which is nice. It's been a long week with a sick Sammy so it's good to have him here to help.