Halloween 2009

This year Diego decided he wanted to be Lighting McQueen for Halloween. Huge shocker, right? I decided it would be best to make Celo be the same thing so they wouldn't fight. Plus, Celo's just as obsessed with McQueen as Diego is. Here they are at our church's party. Marcelo and I decided that since our kids were race cars, we'd be race car fans. Hardcore Nascar fans to be exact.Here are all the cousins (minus the random little blonde girl in the back), posing before trick or treating. Danielle is Miss America, which is what I was when I was close to her age. Angela is Cleopatra, Reagan is a fairy, Isabella is Princess Jasmine, and Leilani is a fairy. Our little family at my parents' annual Halloween bash.My parents as Diego and Dora the Explorer. My dad's wig was awesome. And my mom wore make up to make her look like her face was all tan. The only thing she was missing was a bare midriff like Dora.

Another fun Halloween! Is it really November already?

Annual Halloween Bash

So, as previously stated, my parents have a Halloween party every year. It is a requirement to dress up. This year, we went for the 101 Dalmations theme. I was Cruela, Marcelo was Horace or Jasper...whichever one is the skinny one...(you know, Cruela's dog catching helpers), and the boys were dalmations. I went crazy teasing my hair, and all I could think about all night was what a nightmare it was going to be to detangle it. It actually wasn't bad, though.

Anyway, here we are: For my little dalmation shawl, I painted a bassinet sheet to match the boys' costumes. Hey, it worked.

Here is my cousin Andrea, and Marcelo's cousin Irv ( that's a lot less weird than it sounds), with their gorgeous baby, Lina. They looked awesome! My cousin made her entire costume and it looked

fabulous. And last, but certainly not least, here are my parents, Mickey and Minnie Mouse. This goes in my top 2 favorite costumes they've worn. (The other is the cavemen. They were hilarious that night.) How cute are they??

Halloween 2008

I should really be doing other things right now, but if I don't do this now, I won't do it at all.

This year, Halloween was a lot of fun for Diego. He totally "got" the trick-or-treating thing, and loved every minute of it. Here are the pictures to prove it.

This was the best close up I could get of him.

At first, he was a little weary of all the people walking around. But his 6 year old cousin Angela quickly appointed herself as his chaperone for the evening. She held his hand from house to house and helped him hold out his basket. She was such a little mommy! At one point, I was walking behind them, right after a crowd of some scary looking costumes had walked by. I heard Diego saying to himself, "I not scared. Angela's with me." It was so cute!!

After awhile, though, Angela realized that her 6 year old legs could cover a lot more ground than Diego's little legs, so she went ahead with the big kids, while Diego took it a little more slowly with his friend Arielle. Okay, that's not really true. He didn't take it slowly at all. He practically sprinted from house to house. He would say, "How 'bout this one mommy? Anybody's home this one?" Or "Can we do this one?" Then he would run up to the house, and ring the doorbell as many times as humanly possible before the person answered the door. And then, when the door opened, he would try to walk into the person's house. He did this several times. I kept telling him not to walk in, but he still managed to get inside the door at least 3 times. I should probably work on teaching him to be afraid of strangers, huh?Just look at this face of pure joy. He would run back to me and say, "Mommy, I got a treat!!" It was soooo fun watching him enjoy Halloween so much. It's hard to describe how it makes you feel when you see your little one so happy, even if it's because of something so small.

Celo, on the other hand, didn't really care for Halloween. I wasn't able to get a single picture of him with his little doggy hood on, because he absolutely hated it. Best close up I could get:

We tried letting him trick or treat at one house, but all he wanted to do was run around in the lawn.

So he spent the rest of the night riding around in his wagon.

I'll post pictures from my parents' party separately.

Happy Halloween!

There are so many things I should be doing right now, but here I am.

This was us last weekend at our church's Fall Festival and Trunk-or-Treat. We didn't stay very long. Why? Because Marcelito thinks it's hilarious to stick his whole hand in his mouth and make himself throw up. So he did that in the car on the way there, and smelled soooooo bad like barf, that we had to change him out of his costume 5 minutes after arriving. Then, Diego ate a cookie that I brought because it didn't have any "unfriendly" ingredients in it. All it had was whey, and usually whey is okay. But as soon as Diego ate it, he kept coughing and pointing at his tongue and saying, "Owie! I have an owie in my mouth. I think I spit up." Meaning, I think I'm going to throw up. So I was holding his hand for most of the time, on the lookout for telltale signs. Thankfully, he never did "spit up". And, we won a prize in the Family category of the costume contest. I wasn't going to enter it (contrary to popular belief that I LIVE for this stuff -- not true. Though I do think Halloween is fun. Sue me.), but my mother-in-law told me to and I listened this year. Last year we sat out. ANYWAY, without further ado, here we are:

That's yellow ducktape.

We're going to be something else tonight. I'll post pictures soon.

Tuesday Tell All - Halloween

Describe the Halloween traditions you had as a child growing up. Share the traditions you have created now. Do you watch certain scary movies? Do you eat something specific for dinner? Do you decorate your house and yard? Spill your Halloween Guts!

For as long as I can remember, my parents have dressed up for Halloween. They were always as into it as us kids were, and that always made it even more fun. It was always cool to see how creative they could be in creating their costumes. They have been some really funny things through the years. I wish I could remember them all, but these are the first ones that come to mind: "cereal" killers, an old couple, cavemen, jailbirds, a Jamaican couple, and scarecrows. Their halloween costumes have always been a joint collaboration. Seeing my dad behind a sewing machine still cracks me up.

When we were younger we would just dress up and go trick-or-treating. And once a big group of our extended family moved here, we started having annual halloween parties. (Be on the lookout for pictures from this year's.)

As for traditions, we don't really have any besides getting all the cousins together to go trick-or-treating. And I think I'm going to start doing the "Switch Witch" or Great Pumpkin, or whatever you want to call it. That's pretty much it.

Happy Halloween!

This Halloween was fun. Dressing up the boys was sooo much fun. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves:

We were a family of skunks!! I have to give my mom credit for the idea. She found the skunk costumes and fell in love with them. I made mine and Marcelo's to match the kids. I'm happy with how everything turned out. For trick-or-treating, though, it was too hot, so Diego was Rambo. He loved trick-or-treating with his cousins. He just loves being outside. It's a shame he can't eat hardly any of his candy because he's allergic to everything. Oh well. More for me. Muahahahaha. Here's Rambo.

And some Halloween pjs:

Halloween

Halloween is so much more fun when you have a baby to dress up! Diego is super hyper and jumpy, so I had to dress him as a monkey. Because that's what he is: our little monkey! Marcelo was Tarzan and I was Jane. Sofi was a cheeta. She was adorable! Here's some pics.














Diego had fun at the crazy halloween party my parents always have. He loooves music and seeing everyone dance. He gets that from my mom. He didn't last very long, though. We put him to sleep in the crib that my parents have in my old room and stayed for a little while. Things just change when you have kids, though. We have to leave all the parties early now. But I don't mind!

Halloween

So I went to my parent's annual Halloween Fiesta on Friday night. I didn't get to dance much though, because the baby wasn't having it. He was in no mood for me to be swinging my hips around with him inside. My stomach kept hurting, so I just sat most of the time. Oh, and ate, of course.

So the costume? A bumble bee. Because they have little bellies and so do I. I made Marcelo be a beekeeper. I puffy painted little bees all over his shirt. I originally wanted him to be a flower, but he refused. I guess he'll never forgive me for the year I made him be Aladdin. Oh well, next year I'll have a little tiny man to dress up any way I want.

I'm 6 months pregnant in these pictures. Three months left!! I've been working on the baby's room. I'll post pictures when it's done. So far I've painted the sky and hills on the wall, and I just finished the trees. Now I've got to do the animals. It's so fun.

My parents and David are going to Spain today. I'm so jealous. They'll be gone for two weeks. I wish I could climb into one of their suitcases! David is going to show them where he lived for two years and introduce them to the people he met over there. I hope he loves it. Then they're going to Switzerland. Again, very jealous.

Alright, enough for today. I better get some work done.