Trick and a lot of Treats!!

Halloween has finally arrived and the kids were super excitable all day, so as the weather was dry i sent them outside to play, with the other children that live on the street. However in the excitable mood they were in they were in and out all day which was very irritating considering that i had lots of calls to make so at 3pm i called them in to carve the pumpkin that we had brought and sent home there friend , promising him i would come and collect him at 6pm to go trick or treating, I don't think he got the message though and continued to knock on the door every 15 minutes each time i answered the door and repeated that i would collect him at 6pm. One of the downfalls to working at home especially during school holidays is trying to work with kids and there friends buzzing about.

Finally though we made a start on the pumpkin

They loved getting messy and pulling all the seeds out , little Fred just thought it was a ball and wanted to play with it!

Ewan drew the face on it and i cut it out and finally we had a ta-dah moment. as soon as it was dark we lit it and placed it on the step out side the front door.

I think Fred was a liitle concerned by the fact his "ball" now had a glowing face!

One hour to go and they kids were desperate to get ready, Ewan picked his outfit and dashed off outside to show his friends so i never managed to get a picture but molly loved putting on her new witches costume that i made last week and was more than happy to pose for photos

 6pm arrived and we were ready to leave, we opened the front door and whoosh .. the heavens opened and it was torrential rain, the children were not happy to be kept waiting but 15 mins later we were off.

An hour later we were back, wet and cold but with two buckets over flowing with sweets...

This picture was taken this morning at 11am!  (i forgot last night) The kids got up at 6am, had breakfast and were eating the sweets at 6.30am! I know that is extremely bad parenting but i decided to take the easy road. Last year i let the kids have a few sweets each evening after tea and homework, but they went on and on about the sweets every other moment of the day for two weeks "mum can i have have one.. Please Please" you get the idea, so this time i thought i would get it over with quickly and in one day, so despite my better judgement i said have whatever you want. By 2 pm the kids were so sugar high i went to the local soft play center for the rest of the afternoon to burn off the energy. This was followed by two very ratty children on a sugar low when we got home so a quick bath ( we had tea out) and straight to bed at  6pm. There is still some sweets left but i think they can just have a few after tea tomorrow and i will put up with the whinging. Unless i help them eat it all....mmmm.....

Bye x