Halloween, Round 2

Phoebe excitedly planned our family Halloween party for months before the actual holiday. She had several activities planned and even delegated some of the responsibility to her siblings, a hard and generous move for our type A girl.

On Friday night she and I stayed up late and decorated for the next day.

We started the night with homemade pizza, jack-o-lantern clementines (courtesy of Phoebe), and the beginning of Hocus Pocus.

When we had had a sufficient amount of pizza, we paused the movie and got ready to trick or treat. This is when we took the picture that I posted on Monday.

Topher loved the excitement of it all. He thought the decorations were amazing. He started the day by saying "Happy Halloween!!!" to anyone that would listen. By the time we had the party he had shortened it and was saying "Hapaween!!!" which was adorable.

Here's a bit of detailing on the Bacon Man costume. Don't worry, it's not real bacon.

Bryan and Peter took turns handing out candy. They traded off which doors they stood at and would run ahead of us so they could be at the next door on time.

The temperature outside while we were doing this was in the high 30s, so not only did I enjoy running with the kids all over the house and watching how much fun they were having, I was also incredibly thankful to not be outside trick or treating in the cold.

After trick or treating we moved onto the games. Sophie was in charge of Pin the Tail on the Cat. She and I spent some time on Pinterest and found this cute printable. We used streamers for the tail.

Also, face masks are multifunctional.

Then we all took turns guessing the items in Cooper's mystery boxes. 

They included teeth (unpopped corn kernels), dry skin (onion peels), vampire vomit (cold lettuce in water), chunky ear wax (black beans in water), and witch's eyeballs (maraschino cherries). He did a good job making it gross but fun.

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Phoebe provided coloring pages while we waited for people to make their mystery box guesses.

Then we enjoyed Halloween candy while watching It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, as is our annual custom.

We ended the night with these fun cupcakes Phoebe made and decorated and the rest of Hocus Pocus.

This Halloween was definitely different from what we've done in the past, but it was wonderful and so much fun. Phoebe is a natural party planner!

The holiday certainly had an impact on Topher. When I got him out of his bed yesterday morning he looked down at my shirt that I had just put on for the day and said, "Oh, I love your costume."