Happy Halloween! "Here we go!

Off to Neverland!"  :)

After about a month of on and off hard work in costume making I am proud to say that Halloween was a HUGE hit.  :)  The kids were adorable.  And everyone knew what they were.  (Thank goodness.)  Gabriel made a wonderful Peter Pan and Lorelai was the sweetest little Tinkerbell.  Make sure you go through the entire post for some extra cute video of Gabriel.

Mommy made:  the headband, skirt, wings, and dyed the onesie.  The wings are sewn to the back of the onesie.

Mommy made:  The hat, shirt, pants, belt, and dagger.

So, the evening started off with an early dinner so we could get out before too many other kids were out and about.  Gabriel was very excited.  He was running around the house shrieking.  He wasn't too fond of the hat at first, but once we got outside and walking he didn't mind it anymore.

 Early on he was enthusiastic about carrying his treat bag.  That lasted for about 30 seconds.

Lorelai promptly fell asleep.

 We only really visited houses of people we knew or that knew our kids.  There is an elderly couple that we are friendly with that was really looking forward to seeing the kids dressed up.  So we stopped by there first.  Of course our shy boy cried and cried on our way up to the door.  So, Mommy picked him up and once he saw that it was Mr. Bob he was fine.  Gabriel got braver as the night went on with each house.  He was pretty shy overall though.  No more crying after the first house however.  Yay, Gabriel!  He chose the standing back and letting mommy get the candy for him method.

 He preferred to hold all of his candy at once.  This proved to be difficult as we visited more houses.  Decisions had to be made.  He opted for carrying mostly lollipops.  He kept trying to eat them through the paper.  So first we opened a chocolate Tootsiepop.  He wasn't a fan.  Then we got to the cherry.  He sucked on that one for the rest of the journey...getting it on his clothes, hands, face, and hair.  But, he had fun.

 She should have been Sleeping Beauty for the way she conked out while we visited houses.

 Of course one you get home you have to inspect the goodies.  Gabriel preferred the candy while he allowed his daddy to hold on to the lollipop wrappers.

Gabriel's FAVORITE part of the evening though was handing out candy.  We stayed out on the driveway until the mosquitoes came out in full force.  Gabriel caught on very fast as to how candy is handed out and he began helping Brian at the second trick-or-treater to show up at our driveway.  After a bit he began waving candy in the air to let people know he had candy to hand out.  Then when he'd put the candy in their bag he'd wave bye-bye.  CUTEST little candy hander outer EVER!!!

Gabriel gave this little girl 3 pieces of candy (more than he gave anyone else) and practically ran after her to give her more!  lol