Sugar Highs and Disney Princesses. And Dinosaurs.
Remember a few weeks ago when I wrote that post about how motherhood had given me peace? About how since becoming a mother, my life had become simpler? Purer? About how I finally came to understand God’s love and sacrifice?
Well, that was all before Halloween.
On Saturday night, Chris and I had friends and their kids over for dinner and to go trick-or-treating. I was so excited. It was our first time hanging out with other parents as parents doing something for our kids with other kids. I was beaming. I laid out Bean’s costume, I baked a casserole, I Febreezed the dogs. I was ready.
But nothing could have prepared me for the chaos that comes with four small children, a couple costumes, and pumpkins filled with candy. There is just no preparing for that. There is also no recovering from that either. In fact, as I write this it is Sunday afternoon and I am still hiding in my closet, rocking back and forth, whispering, “The children! Stop the children!”
I don’t have many pictures of the actual dinnertime because I was busy catching flying tater tots and spears of broccoli.
That’s right. I served broccoli. To children. On Halloween. And as little green rockets went flying by my head, I realized that maybe that wasn’t such a great idea.
I also don’t have any pictures of the actual act of trick-or-treating. But that’s because Bean couldn’t walk, so I was carrying him while we waited for the other kids to go door-to-door. And because I was still on the look out for flying spears of broccoli, so I was sort of distracted.
But we did have a little photo session outside my house before The Great Candy Adventure of 2009 commenced…
It looks like Bean is sitting up on his own – and he is! – but only because the tail on his costume helped him balance. I don’t think that technically counts as sitting up for the first time…
Beanosaurus
“Rooooarrr!!!”
Twirling. Its a princess thing. You wouldn’t understand.
You know, before we had Beanie Halloween was always a crazy holiday. Full of grown women dressed like tramps and grown men dressed as nuns. The candy may not have been flowing, but the beer certainly was. And tricks and treats certainly had different meanings. I thought nothing could be as crazy as a college bar on Halloween night.
I was wrong. Suburban Halloween is crazier than drunken college Halloween any day of the year.
13 Comments
Maureen
I’m wondering if we shouldn’t genetically engineer children of the future to be born with tails, they do seem helpful.
kay
what a cute costume bean has on!!! well the others also, but i are partial to bean because well because this is his mothers blog and well that would be akward saying how cute the others are and not bean. just kidding, he is absolutely darling!!!!! and don’t be giving away his sitting up secrets, just let the world think he is super advanced!
Cassandra
Aw they all look so cute!
Is that sweet little Monkey baby Levi Lovey?
Where did you find the Dino costume? Its just so precious
Ashley
OMGoodness! He was SO CUTE! You should have entered that baby in some sort of contest because he could have made you MILLIONS with that look! On a larger note, I would have definitely swopped places with you Saturday night!! Wanna come back to college and let me be Bean’s Mom for a little while? Haha
Christina
Laughing, laughing, laughing! The sitting up because of the tail is just so funny to me. And his little face in that dino costume. Too cute. Oh, I just read Maureen’s comment…that’s funny. Scary, but funny.
On serving vegetables to kids, not only at Halloween but anytime…the other day my oldest daughter was looking at a new cookbook we got that shows how families ate during the time of the Depression (it’s an American Girl cookbook). She said,”It was just so different!” She paused for a second, and then said,”They ate vegetables EVERY DAY!” That coupled with her comment two nights ago,”I’m tired of eating out,” surely ought to get me nominated for mother of the year, no?
Your story is great…had me laughing out loud. (I just can’t bring myself to write LOL instead, sorry.)
Laura
OMG! Beanie is SO cute in his dino costume! 🙂 And yes, Halloween is crazy with kids. Although I think yours sounds a little crazier than ours. 🙂
Zoe
The adorable is too much! On the plus side, these Beanie posts are making my man more inclined towards having babies 🙂
Tressa
Beanie takes the prize for the cutest on Halloween!!
Michelle
That dinosaur costume is quite possibly one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen. What a cutie!
Lori @ I Can Grow People
“Beanie’s Beloved”–awesome! Porter has a “beloved” too–her name is Harper.
Jennifer C.
How adorable!!
Jenn
Wow, all the kids look adorable! If you were out trick or treating, who was home to hand out the full size candy bars? We had to leave for a dinner party at about 7pm, and so we put out a bowl of candy. I expected the first kid to dump it in his pillowcase, but to our surprise, there was actually candy left in the bowl when we got home!
whitney
oh hes darling. What a cute little Dinosaur indeed. We opted out on the trick or treating thing and just went to a neighborhood party with our parents.