Halloween Fun

Well, we had a fun – albeit very soggy! – Halloween! Before the rain came on Saturday, we had a fun day on Thursday with Maxwell’s Halloween parade up at school! That morning, when Maxwell put his costume on for school, Spencer wanted to get dressed up too so I threw Samantha’s hat on as well and we actually got a cute picture of all 3 dressed up!

Lions and Tigers and Pigs! Oh my!

I was really proud of Maxwell’s costume. I found the neat mask and tail on Etsy. We tried to just buy a tiger costume but…the colors didn’t match and that was not ok with Maxwell! So, I searched high and low to find an orange shirt and pants that matched and cut all those tiger stripes out of black iron-on fabric. Unfortunately, the fabric didn’t stick that great. Fortunately, GJ was in town and came to the rescue by sewing on all the black stripes. I thought he looked AWESOME and he LOVED it so it was a win-win!

Since Maxwell was a tiger, Spencey decided he wanted to be a lion! I ordered him a similar mask off of Etsy and then we found a lion costume at Target. The mask was hard for Spencer to see out of so, again thanks to GJ, he had two options for Halloween. He could either wear the custome as it came above with the face on the hood. Or, he could wear the mask with the face of the lion removed from the hood….

For Halloween, he ultimately decided not to wear the mask but I was glad I got a few pics of him in it anyway!

Rooooaaaawwwrrrr!

The parade up at school was only for the 4s and 5s and it was precious. It took all of 10 minutes but it was a pretty cute 10 minutes!

Maxwell had the best costume, if I do say so myself!  🙂

I thought Blair’s birthday cake was pretty cute too!

Here he is getting mad at me for taking too many pictures. Typical.

After the parade I went to pick up Maxwell from his classroom and could tell right away that he didn’t feel good. By the time we got home, he was burning up with fever. A trip to the doctor on Friday morning confirmed strep. Ugh….but very easy to treat! He looked like this on Friday…

But a few doses of some pink bubble gum amoxicillin and he was no longer contagious and ready to go by Halloween! Pictures of the main event tomorrow! See you then! Boo!