Spookie Ookie

So, Halloween. It's pretty fun, right? Except the Jebgrouch didn't grow up with it, (another reason why Sweden is weird), and so he has never gotten into it. "It's creepy" is what I hear from about October 15th right on through. Oh, well. I've managed to get him dressed up as Donald Duck two years in a row now. Pictures, you ask? None, I sadly respond. He's always the one BEHIND the camera when the costume is on. It's his favorite Halloween trick.

The kids are into it, even though their father has tried to convince them otherwise. It's getting to be pretty close to the end of Abigail's Halloween career, though. Bummer. She decided to dress up as the devil this year. I said "so you're just going to wear your regular clothes then? That's no fun." She didn't think that was funny. Abigail as the devil. Unfortunate, I know.

Harrison's costume this year was surprisingly popular. We probably saw 10 other red and black ninjas at school. Which is really spooky since I bought his costume on clearance about 2 years ago. Ooooooh! Scary!

This year Leah turned Halloween into the Oscars. She had a costume change with every new treat presenter it seemed. We started off with the poodle skirt, moved onto the witch, and ended with Belle. And also threw in a few days in the house as Jasmine and Jessie. Oh, she was using the free pass on dressing up, you betcha.

Hudson also had a few wardrobe changes. It comes with being the younger brother I guess, and the beneficiary of all the hand me downs. Although he was not happy with the dragon costume for some reason. He liked his little ninja much better.

Fluffy was put in the Dumbo. All of the kids have taken their turn. It's the cutest costume known to man, and it puts them into some kind of scary zombie state. For some reason, I guess with the puffy pillow belly and the warmth of the costume, it puts them to sleep. Every single kid has fallen asleep in that costume. Ah, memories. Chubby little red cheeks passed out on the big Dumbo belly. We did have to alter it for the Fluffy and remove some of the belly stuffing. He had enough of his own stuff and fluff to fill it. No, not really, but really we could have.

Obligatory pictures!

We always have to camp out the night before at the school for the Halloween parade. The boys tolerated it fine, surprisingly.

The break neck speed at which the kids pass us by. Even though we have the conversation before school that they need to try and SLOW DOWN so we can get a picture. Glad we had that conversation.




Obligatory pre-Trick or Treating pictures! Hooray!

See? Hudson is mad at that dragon costume. It was the warmest though, so he had to suck it up for the candy. I'm a nice mom like that.

Aaaahh! The devil is coming to get Harrison! Watch out, Bubba!

And one more costume change. Harrison dressed up as Papa dressed up as a ninja, and Abigail dressed up as Papa dressed up as the devil.

Leah dressed up as Papa dressed up as Belle and Hudson dressed up as Papa dressed up as a happy dragon this time. Guess we needed to add the mustache to make it better.

And finally, the Fluff dressed up as Papa dressed up as a slightly stoned Dumbo. I guess the costume even has its effects on grandpa! Spooooooky.