Happy Halloween!

Well, we have definitely been in the Halloween spirit here this week. We started the other night when we carved our pumpkins. We thought Noah would get a big kick out of doing it, and he did think it was pretty cool when Wes cut into the pumpkin with a knife.

After that came the cleaning out of the pumpkin. Wes started to stick his hand in and then immediately declared that he did not like this part and could I do it. I had no problem touching the gooey pumpkin innards so I happily volunteered. Noah, however, was unsure.

In fact, when I invited him to stick his hand in, he said, "No." Obviously we know where his aversion to pumpkin goo comes from! Of course, being the wonderful Mom that I am, I couldn't let him off that easily.

Please note that while Noah may be laughing, he is also trying to escape from his chair as quickly as possible.

So, after attacking him with the pumpkin crap Noah lost interest completely and Wes and I ended up finishing the pumpkin ourselves. Actually, carving the stupid pattern took so long that Noah had gone to bed and I had made all the treats for his school Halloween party by the time Wes finished! I think it looks pretty good.....

.....even if Wes did accidentally cut off the cat's tail and some of his whiskers!

Yesterday we continued the Halloween fun with Noah's class party. All the kids were supposed to dress up. Noah had picked his costume a few weeks ago...Thomas the Train. He was totally into it until we saw this kid in his costume...

All of the sudden Noah realized that his store bought Party City costume was completely unacceptable in comparison to this Thomas costume.

To be fair, I can see his point. Anyway, long story short, he stalked this poor child and his costume the whole time while periodically collapsing into fits of frustration because the child would not trade costumes with him. I tried to explain to Noah that I would never be the kind of mother that would selflessly stay up til 4 in the morning making him an intricate costume but that just seemed to piss him off even more. Sigh....

Thankfully our trip to the South Carolina Aquarium's Fish or Treat was a little more successful. There were no Thomas costumes to be jealous about so Noah happily wore his own crappy costume while he walked around collecting candy and looking at fish.

He wasn't real interested in the collecting candy part. He really just wanted to look at the fish. And hang out with his pals the bumble bee (aka Ellison)....

.....and the panda bear (aka Ellison's sister Kennedy)

We almost made it through the aquarium without any problems...until we encountered this....

Apparently we are not a fan of divers dressed as clowns! Again, I can see his point. More than a little creepy!

That's okay though, nothing a little candy can't cure!

Tonight should be fun...Noah will probably want to eat every piece of candy that gets thrown in his bucket! I will post pictures of Thomas the Train on a sugar high this weekend!