I had great plans of making cupcakes for Thomas' Halloween party at school, but someone signed up for cupcakes before I managed to get on the list. So I defaulted back to a fun treat I made years ago - oreo spiders! They were more orange than they look here, but the lighting out today wasn't great - thanks, clouds...
I went back and forth on whether to use the intended red hots or not for the kids. In the end I decided my kiddo likes hot stuff so he would probably like them. The rest of the kids are on their own. ; )
Henry wearing his Halloween outfit from his Nonni and Grandpa. The daycare planned on having the kids trick-or-treat to other classrooms and I falsely assumed the infants would be exempt. Nope - the other babies all had costumes. Whatever. We were late enough this morning we missed that part anyhow.
Truth be told, we missed Thomas' treat-or-treating as well. Apparently the times listed were guidelines, not rules. Ha! I wasn't too concerned, I hadn't been able to convince Thomas to wear his costume at all. So no need to have a huge meltdown when I tried to put it on him...
Surprise, surprise... Apparently he saw all his friends in their costumes and threw a fit when Matt tried to put the rocket in his locker. As all of his friends were taking their costumes off, Thomas was proudly strutting around as a rocket ship. Apparently he was quite the hit in his class (I was still with Henry and missed all of it!) I figured the costume would be discarded when I went back to his classroom... Boo!
Nope! They had moved to the indoor gym and he was still wearing his rocket ship!
We played with each other through the window and he was happy as a clam in his rocket ship. Go figure.
I came back that afternoon for the party and got to hang out with Thomas and his best bud, Eli (Buzz Lightyear). The rocket is pretty much impossible to sit down while wearing, but his teachers said he really liked wearing it and they had to talk him out of it for lunch.
There were a ton of sweets at the party. Look at my kid's plate. I'm not sure this is my kid... Fruit? He has ice cream and didn't even eat it. Eli was chowing down so hard on a cupcake I had to stop him and get the partially eaten wrapper off for him. That's more my style. No accounting for genetics sometimes I guess... "/
As for the final outcome of the painted pumpkin - it looked very bold! I had to add a little bit of paint around the T before I pulled the tape off or you wouldn't have been able to tell what it was. Which is pretty much the exact opposite of last year - he spent so much time painting and repainting that pumpkin it ended up a being study in gray... It's amazing how much everything can change in a year! :)