Halloween Week!

Halloween week included a lot of fun and a little bit of spooky. We met up with some friends and made homemade slime, aka "oobleck," out of water, food coloring, and corn starch. It was both a solid and a liquid and super icky, which the boys loved of course. Maddox wanted to make his own at home later but he dumped in all the food coloring before I noticed and then his hands went in it and...well, he looked like the Hulk for a few hours. Jude dipped his hands on purpose because he wanted really really badly to turn into the Hulk.

Maddox had fun with the Halloween theme this week. He drew us in the pumpkin patch and told me he had $10 so he could buy the biggest pumpkin there.

They made pumpkin graphs and Maddox designed a "13-eyed monster" with our abundance of google eyes. Apparently, monsters wear high heels.

I'm happy to say we wrapped up the Apple unit. I traced Maddox's hand/arm and he cut it out and added the "apples" with Qtips and red paint. 

On Halloween Eve, I surprised the boys with a spooky bath, complete with spider web, fake bugs,glow-in-the-dark spiders, and green-tinted bath water. Maddox loved it, but Jude was being grumpy. 

I re-used the spider web late that night, so they woke up to a spider web game where they had to crawl under it to claim a special treat (sour patch kids). Now that they are older, the holidays are even more fun!

After all this fun, Halloween Day was actually one of those days that went by too slow...AND it rained! The boys kept wanting to go trick or treating, at 3...at 4...at 5. FINALLY,  6 PM came and we hit the street. We left behind a cute little candy setup, complete with lights and a foam pumpkin stuffed with caramel apple suckers. Sadly, the wind blew the pumpkin into the bushes, along with the suckers :( But, I threw them into the candy bowl when we got back, and by 8:30 PM, all we had left were a few bat rings, a tattoo, and two airheads. 

It took a few hours before the sugar high wore off, but luckily we were all in bed by midnight.