Happy Halloween!

Here are our cuties on Halloween! Our knights in shining armour and the little princess!

Here's James with the helmet on:
Elizabeth with her best pose for the camera: And Joshua with his helmet on:

We took them trick or treating to a couple houses around the neighborhood. Before we took them, Daddy was explaining to them what they were going to do.

"You knock on the door and say trick-or-treat. Then they will give you candy and you say thank you." Then Daddy had them practice.

"When they open the door, what do you say?"

James replies, "CANDY!!" Um, no. That would be rude.

Of course, we had nothing to worry about because 90% of the time the kids became shy and said nothing at all. What?! My kids shy with nothing to say?!

But luckily, also about 90% of the time they did say thank you. Well, at least at every house at least one child said thank you.

We had to keep telling them to put their candy in their buckets and when we get home they could have some candy. Joshua kept trying to eat the candy with the wrapper on.

After we got home we gave them a couple of pieces of candy and then Daddy took their buckets away with promises to have more candy the next day. The boys were fine with that, but Elizabeth started crying. She did not want to give up her candy!

But eating candy has given me my new favorite word of the week courtesy of Joshua: "lickypop" (that would be lollipop). It makes sense, it's a lollipop and you lick it: lickypop!

Good times, good times :)