Pumpkins!!!

Ben made a spider hat at school today and was nice enough to help one of the adults make one for Conner who had to leave the party a little early! 

It was time to carve those pumpkins tonight and the boys were very excited.  They both wanted happy faces at first, but Conner changed his to a mean face when it was time to get out the magic marker and draw the face on the pumpkin. Ben was much more willing to stick his hand in the pumpkin and pull out all the "gooey" as he called it.  Conner pulled a little out, but mostly was not a fan of getting his hands dirty... I don't blame him...

Ben insisted on "helping" Dad cut out the face by holding onto Dad's hand.  Conner was content to watch Dad do the work while he laid his head on Dad's arm!

The finished jack-o-lanterns!!!

We took the jack-o-lanterns outside to the porch when we were all done.  Ben was very worried about leaving them outside all night long, but we finally convinced him that they would be okay!

We had a few more minutes before bed so we decided to have a little dance party with some Halloween tunes!  It started off great, but turned a little sour at the end...  (Notice how they keep looking at the dishwasher, because they can see themselves in it while they dance!)

All day long Ben had insisted on being called Simba, since that is his costume for Halloween.  I finally got the hang of it, so by the time the boys went to bed, I kissed Ben and said "Goodnight Simba!"  He then informed me, "Mom, I'm back to normal now, you can just call me Ben!"  Figures....  They are extremely excited about trick-or-treating tomorrow night so we will see how that goes in our new neighborhood!