Halloween!

This year, the boys are obsessed with Star Wars. When Kimball said he wanted to be a Jedi, I thought "Sweet! I can make a robe!" But he wanted to be Plo Koon, one of the more hideous, obscure Jedi's. Thankfully, I found his costume online...I don't know how parents did Halloween before the internet! Cameron decided on Darth Vader, and I decided we could do a Star Wars theme as a family...

I dressed up as Leia, Dale as Han Solo, Kimball as Plo Koon, Cameron as Darth Vader, and Lily as the cutest R2-D2 ever! Everyone loved her tutu. We were a hit at the church trunk-or-treat.

This IS the droid I'm looking fot!

 Because there was a high-school football game on Halloween night, our city moved Halloween to the 30th. On that night, we went trick-or-treating to some friends' houses and around our neighborhood. We discovered that if you go to smaller neighborhoods, you only have to go to a few houses, because no one trick-or-treats there and the people at those houses want to get rid of all their candy so they gave our boys tons!

 On the 30th, we finally carved our pumpkins and took our traditional family picture with our Jack-o-Lanterns.

A funny story...I had made a finger-food dinner on the 30th so we could hurry to go trick-or-treating since the city set the time for doing so from 6-8 pm. The boys were eating as slowly as humanly possible, so Dale told them if they wanted to go, they had to finish in 10 minutes. To our shock, the boys just weren't hurrying and we realized they weren't going to finish in time. I couldn't stand the thought of them missing out on trick-or-treating, so Dale compromised and said for each extra minute we had to wait for them to finish, the boys would have to wait an extra day to eat their candy.

Kimball finished in time to get his candy on November 5th, and Cameron on Nov. 8th. We couldn't believe that even the motivation of getting candy sooner didn't get the boys to eat faster. At first, Kimball thought we just weren't going trick-or-treating since he didn't finish in time, and calmly went to put his PJs on without complaint.

Punishment never works for the boys because they just accept it (threatening to take away toys, they offer to put them in the take-away box). At least they are easy going and accept their punishment willingly, but they never seem very motivated the next time.

When they finally did get their candy, the prayed in gratitude for that candy and asked that they wouldn't get sick from all of their candy.