Finnerhosen and Halloween

Marc's mom came up to visit after Conor was born and brought this cute lederhosen outfit with her. They bought it over forty years ago when Marc's brother was little and every boy in their family has had their picture taken in it since then. Finn's turn was up this year! All the way to the portrait studio he claimed he was very excited to have his picture taken and that he was going to do lots of smiling for the camera. He got a bit grumpy when it was actually time to take pictures but the photographer was still able to coax a few smiles out of him and get some good shots. We just think he is the cutest!

And of course I have to post about Halloween. Our three older kids had such a blast this year. Halloween is definitely a much anticipated holiday in these parts. Teresa has always been in to monsters and zombies and all things spooky and has helped her younger siblings cultivate a love for that stuff as well. Costco put their Halloween costumes out at the beginning of September so that is when Halloween talk started at our house. Even Finn was super into it, even if he didn't quite understand what there was to be so excited about. We've been reading our Halloween books and our zombie books and watching the Yo Gabba Gabba Halloween episode for the past two months. Not to mention the costume anticipation. I usually like to make the kids costumes if possible, but I told them this year they had to go store bought, my sewing machine isn't working right now, and with Conor arriving at the beginning of October, I knew trying to make costumes would just be too stressful for me. Nora knew straight away that she wanted to be Chase from Paw Patrol. Finn had a hard time choosing among Marshall from Paw Patrol, Scooby Doo (or Soupy Soupy as he calls him) and Sofia The First. Once he saw Nora's Chase costume though he got super excited to be Marshall. Teresa decided to be a witch of darkness, though I don't think she quite managed the darkness part! Poor Conor had no costume this year. I kept meaning to get him something cute to wear but it just didn't happen.

Before trick-or-treating:

Conor slept through the whole thing!

We had so much fun trick-or-treating in our neighborhood this year! Our neighbors are all so nice, it was fun getting to talk to more of them during  the evening. Though we did shock one neighbor with how many kids we have. He did a double take when he saw them all and said "wait, HOW many kids do you have?" as if four children was just too many for him to count. 

They got a pretty good haul of candy:

 This was before the church Halloween party. They didn't let me do their makeup on Halloween, but I thought they looked so cute with it done!