Belated Halloween

Hurricane Sandy ruined the kids Halloween this year.  After the hurricane hit, the Governor postponed Halloween until Monday, November 5th.  We still dressed the kids up on October 31st, even if it was to run errands.  They had fun dressing up and we put smiles on a lot of people's faces that day.   

 

 

So the Governor postponed Halloween until Monday, however our town cancelled Halloween on Monday.  On Monday, Tinton Falls still had about 20% of the town without power plus the department of public works did not have time to clean the brush or branches up.  The mayor deemed it unsafe for the kids to go trick or treating.  The kids school reopened on Monday, and asked that all the kids wear their costumes to school today.  John was so excited to wear his costume.  He dressed as Flash this year.  In case any of you forget, John is super fast! And since Flash is the fastest super hero around, it just made sense for John to dress up as him for Halloween.  Gillian was a beautiful lavender fairy.  She loved being a fairy, but I think this may be my last year to pick Gillian's costume.  I packaged up two Halloween cookies per kid in both John and Gillian's classes and the kids brought them to school today too. 

I got to pick the kids up from school today (one of the perks of working from home when the office has no power) and I also got to talk to the teachers.  Miss Mary Ellen, John's teacher, told me that she put cookies in each of the kids pumpkin buckets and the extras we opened and used for snack.  I'm so glad they were able to use them.  Landon also stopped me in the hallway and said "I had one of your cookies today!  It was yummy!"  His grandma said "Oh, you're the cookie mom!"  I leaned over to Landon and whispered "We will have cookies for Thanksgiving too!"  He jumped up and down and said "YES!"  I am so glad that he loves the cookies too.  Anyway, John had a pumpkin bucket full of Halloween goodies (a glow in the dark sword, cookies, rings stickers etc).  Gillian also had a Halloween bag with all kinds of goodies.  Even though the kids didn't get to go door to door trick or treating, they still ended up having fun.   

Witch Hat Cookies

I picked the kids up from school on Friday, and John had two witch hat cookies on a plate.  He was so proud of these cookies.  He told me "They are for you and Daddy.  We got to make three today, and I had one at snack."  As soon as Gillian saw the cookie she had to have it.  I told John she could have my cookie.  He said, "But I made them for you.  I know how to make them.  We just need the ingredients.  We need icing and a chocolate cookie and a big chocolate chip."  We went out to dinner and on our way home, John and Gillian ate the two witch hat cookies.  We stopped at the food store and got the "ingredients."  We found the Hershey kisses, and green icing very quickly, but had a hard time in the cookie aisle finding a big chocolate cookie.  While I was looking at every option of cookie, John started to do the pee-pee dance.  We threw our stuff on a shelf and ran to the bathroom.  On our way back, I said to John, ok now we need to find a big chocolate cookie.  He says "Yup with a hole in it."  Thank goodness he said that, because I saw those cookies.  We bought our ingredients and went home.  John immediately went to work and showed Daddy, Gilly and I how to make the witch hat cookies. 

Secret Agent Spy (take two)

Around two o'clock today, I told John that I needed my secret agent spy to go check on Gillian. He said "Her is sleeping." I told him, if she is sleeping leave her alone, but if she is awake then walk her downstairs. He runs upstairs and then comes back. "Her is awake, but she won't come with me." We told him to go back upstairs and get her. He replied "But she won't come!" I told him to tell Gillian that we had cookies. And Daddy told him to stay with her and help her go down the stairs slowly. Telling her about cookies made Gillian move. They came down the steps side by side on their tushies. And Gillian came running towards me saying "Cookie!" We certainly know how to get our little girl out of bed.