Happy Halloween!

It's Tuesday night and I'm going to share most of the Halloween festivities.  Some more will follow.  

Facebook was nice enough to share a picture from a year ago at the Breezy Point parade.  It's a shame they did not do one this year.

Ariel and her friend Chloe.  Amy grew up with Chloe's mom.  

Our little light pink kitty cat.  (That's what she called herself)

The kids had great costumes.

I wish we could have stayed for the party.

Then over to Aden's school for his parade.  

 There's Aden's class.

 Our Ant Man.

 Our friend Tara.

 Mrs. Gainsley from first grade.

 The boys loved the parade.

 I'm not homeroom dad this year so it took some convincing with the principal to let me in to check out the party.

 I only stayed a few minutes.  What happened to the good old days?  They got an orange, Pirate's Booty and sugar free jello to eat.  Not even one piece of candy!

 Some of the pumpkins from Aden's friends.

 Walking back home.  I love when they put their feet up.  

Jumping ahead to Saturday night.  Eva came over for some pictures.  We had a cat and a mouse!

 Aden looks so big compared to them.  

 This next series was our attempt to get a group shot.  We need to find a way to get all 5 to look at the same time.  Noah loves his big sister.

 Ok, forget the others, lets just stick to the babies.

 Time to go trick or treating.  That's our house with Ariel's friends coming to the door.  

My sister and Amy's mom gave out the candy.  Amy and I walked around with the little kids.  Some of the dads went with the big kids.

Here are Aden and his buddies Jason, Jason and Ben.

All the rest of the pics are blurry but you get the idea.  The twins first time trick or treating!

Maura's dad!

It was actually a very quiet night.  The weather was nice but there were not many kids out and about half the houses in our neighborhood were dark.  Maybe people went out because it was a Saturday night?

Aden, Ben and Jason were up late trading candy.  It was a fun night.

Ninja Turtle Pumpkin

Ok, you have to wait a little longer for the Halloween pics.  It's Monday night and the kids are all asleep. (I take that back, while I was working on this, Noah woke up.  Amy is trying to get him back to bed now) Aden and Ariel had fun at dance class.  We decided not to sign them up for the show at the end of the year.  Maybe next year.  How is it November already? This Daylight Savings Time really needs to stop.  It's awful with little kids.  They just get up even earlier.  

Back to last week.  Time for music. Who does Eli look like?

Noah was grooving.

 Colorful balls.

 Anthony and the boys eat everything now.

 Eli found his binkie.

 The Mum-Mums are back!

We snuck into Aden's school at the end of the day to say hi to people.

 Cool Praying Mantis!

 Aden didn't know what to make of it.

 I went with an old friend to see a concert at the Keswick in Glenside.  It's a little hard to explain but it was the lead singer of the 70's band Yes with Jean Luc Ponty the French jazz violinist.

Sitting really close!

 Aron and I.  We were in the same camp bunk at Twin Oaks and he was Aden's counselor this year at Southampton.

 I just took a couple of shots.

 They sounded amazing.  A mix of Yes songs and original songs done in various styles, rock, jazz, blue grass, reggae.

 Aden had to paint a pumpkin for school.  He wanted to make a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pumpkin.

 The boys watched Aden work.

 Almost done.

 It came out great!

Little Buzz and Woody

It's Sunday night and Amy is really into the World Series.  I keep trying to explain to her why we don't root for the Mets.  She thinks we should because we should be proud they represent our division and because New York is so close and we have no idea where Kansas City is.  She doesn't understand that it doesn't work that way.  Amy has been funny all weekend watching the World Series, the Temple-Notre Dame game and even the Dallas game.  She's really into the Hosmer guy on Kansas City.

This weekend was all about Halloween.  I was going to skip ahead and do a Halloween post but I had already picked the pics out for Monday last Thursday so you will have to wait till I'm more awake. Hopefully Tuesday.  It was a fun weekend.  We keep finding candy wrappers all around the house.  Mark caught Ariel yesterday hiding in a corner eating candy.  We think it's all she's eaten for days.  Trick or treating worked out well.  Even the twins enjoyed it.  Speaking of the twins, here is a sneak preview of their costumes when we tried them on.  Introducing Little Buzz and Woody!

Who are you?

These will finish off last weekend.  The boys were chillin' in the same crib.

I took the older kids to Shady Brook Farms to get pumpkins.  Doesn't look it from this picture but it was packed!

 Not sure what was going on here.

 This was the line to take the hayride to get to the pumpkin patch.

Stroller parking.

Ready for the ride?

There was no hay on the hay ride.  They were brand new wagons.

 The pumpkins had really been picked through already.  We had to walk to the back to find good ones.  

 My dude.

 Cool panorama.  

 We passed by this on the way back!

 Aden found the perfect pumpkin for his school project.

 My buddy Hollie who I haven't hung with in 20 years!  We totally look the same!

 The first time the boys bathed together in the tub.