Halloween Weekend

It has been the craziest weekend! My mom came to town to help with my sister's kids while her son was in surgery (went well p.s.) and since our usual sitter had plans Friday night we had my mom come over to watch Aiden so we could have a date night. We went with some friends to a halloween haunted building (I have been BEGGING Jeremy to take me forever so this year we finally went). It was SO much fun, I forgot how much I love those things. My friend Julie had never been to one before so it was fun to watch her scream every 5 seconds haha. It was a new one and you could tell the actors definitely loved their job, they'd scare me (usually resulting in my stomping angrily and saying "OH shoot") and either I had a really funny reaction or they just like scaring people because some of them broke character and would smile. They even had a 3D part which was neat.

The next day we had the primary program practice in the morning from 9 30 -12 (yep. 2 1/2 hr practice.) and Aiden was just not having any of it and I had gone yet another night without sleeping (I seem to have developed a temporary insomnia that keeps me up until 4-6am. Yep it's horrible) and so I was a walking zombie so after realizing I couldn't handle the class Jeremy switched me and I took Aiden in the nursury and tried to listen so I'd know what was going on. After the program Jeremy's Aunt called saying she was in town so we rushed over to meet her for lunch. Aiden (already ridiculously tired and done with life for the day) had been there less than five minutes before head butting his cousin, which shocked me since he's never hit/headbutted or hurt another kid....like ever it was the weirdest thing. Before the end of lunch he had head butted her 2 more times before we decided we better get him home and in bed. Then Jeremy laid sod in our previous weed garden which for some reason I don't have a picture of yet. I hung out with my mom and hoped for 2 hours Aiden would give up on playing and take a nap but he didn't. We went out for dinner, ran to the store to get candy, rushed home because I forgot the camera (oops) and got Aiden dressed and went to the trunk or treat with a toddler who had not napped.

I haven't had a nap, can you tell? We were already running 45 minutes late so I didn't have time to cut off the extra fabric poor kid.  It's ok though everyone thought he was cute anyways, they kept commenting on how cute his costume was and where we found it (thanks Mim!!).

Good thing the guy that owned the trunk across from us saw our sad baby and came to the rescue with smarties (Aiden's mask lasted all of 2 minutes but he tolerated it on his head)

And when those ran out we gave him a sucker

So glad Grandma Thompson (who Aiden has nicknamed Pumpkin lol probably because we were trying so hard to get him to say Pumpkin for her when she first got here) was able to come with us

Luckily Aiden reached his breaking point as we were reaching the car (no more turtle shell, apparently he'd had enough of it) I was so proud of him though for making it to all the trunks and being really good about putting candy in his cars bucket and  not wanting to hold it all. I was a little bummed that despite all our practice he didn't say trick or treat until we got in the car on the way home but what can you do.

He did much better today for pictures (with Jeremy's help haha). Oh and the little weapon, it appeared in our yard about a month ago and no one claimed it so we decided to just go ahead and use it for his costume. What a coincidence!

We also carved pumpkins today, Aiden liked peeking inside the pumpkins but was mostly uninterested in the process.

We did a turtle for Aiden (yeah, I drew that, I'm awesome...ha. EDIT: Jeremy wanted me to be sure to give him credit for carving it (and credit for messing up the one eye...just saying!)) and I did ghosts and Jeremy did....Thundercats. I knew I'd need to tell you that one because NO ONE BUT JEREMY WATCHED THAT SHOW. ;P