This year, we had an angry birds themed Halloween at the Hawkins house. If you know Will, you know how much he LOVES to play games on the iPad. And one of his favorites has always been angry birds. So because the girls aren't old enough to express an opinion on their costume choice quite yet, we let Will pick his, and I made the girls' costumes to match. Will chose the red angry bird, so obviously, the girls had to be the little green piggies! I had so much fun making their outfits. I was even originally planning to make the rest of us shirts with faces of the other angry birds. And then I remembered that I don't have enough spare time for that.
Here's sweet Will modeling his costume on one of our practice days. The girls weren't big fans of the tutus I made them at first, so even though it meant shedding green glitter all over the house, we had a couple of practice runs to get them used to wearing the costumes.
Caroline and Will
{Emily was having NOTHING to do with sitting on the couch on this particular day}
Caroline
And then came the big day. We got ready...
tutus, check. headbands, check. piggie shirts, check.
Emily
Mimi and the girls
The girls even loved their trick-or-treat bags, which they happily called their purses.
And of course, Will was always ready.
And then. We tried to take a picture of all three kids together. And the wheels came off.
HOT MESS piggies emerged, and they never really recovered.
So I'm not sure if the horror of taking pictures was just insurmountable for my sweet ladies, or if they would have rejected trick-or-treating anyway. But we tried to leave with the whole crew after pictures, and the girls were just NOT.HAVING.IT. It should be mentioned that in the past month, the girls have developed a completely unwarranted and irrational fear of our cat. This is our former housecat, who now lives outside, weighs in at about 6 pounds, and with the exception of mice, bugs, and small rodents, wouldn't hurt anyone. Nevertheless...anytime we go outside, whether the cat is around or not, Caroline and Emily start yelling CAT!!! in complete terror. Sometimes they get over it, and sometimes not. So Halloween was one of the nights that they just couldn't get over the cat fear, plus were already out of sorts from pictures. And the idea of taking them to meet strangers just seemed like the worst plan ever. So my sweet parents stayed home with the girls and passed out candy while the rest of us had a blast trick-or-treating. This was the first year that Will really got it, and once he realized the candy reward potential, he was ALL about trick-or-treating. He was so sweet, and even kept the neighbors laughing by reporting to several of the houses exactly how many pieces of candy he had collected. We had a great time, and apparently with the impending doom of trick-or-treating out of the picture, the girls had a delightful evening as well.
They played...
They hugged...
They danced...
...and they discussed very important piggie business.
When we got home, Will counted his candy and enjoyed a few pieces.
We even put together an angry birds puzzle from Nana...while dressed as an angry bird. What could be better than that?
Happy Halloween!!
