the final october chapter

Jonah and I still go to story time at our local library and this week they had a party for all the kids! I thought it would be nice to make them some goody bags and purposely not include so much candy.
Instead, going with our paper theme, I included cheapie composition notebooks, pencils and erasers and other treats. I have had the baggies for a couple of years but I never remembered I had them until it was too late. I think they're rad and I'm glad I got to use them! He helped me sort all 12 of them--he loved picking each item and saying, "coming right up!" and dropping it into the bag.
At the party, it was so sweet looking at Jonah jiggle the bag in front of his 'classmates'. One little trick I did was cut the dracula teeth in half because they never fit a kids mouth properly. This way, they kept their teeth in their mouths and were still sorta able to talk.

I have found in my Halloween experiences that people don't like wearing masks. Jonah especially. They're truly uncomfortable. Being a fan of Iron Man 3 {my most fave IM} I decided to go with Tony Stark in his suit with that Robert Downey Jr look {mmm...yummmy man}. So Jonah grew washable facial hair and storytime people loved it--so dashing!

Andrew had a big day at school too. He had to do a presentation in front of his class dressed as a community helper. Not sure if coach is necessarily a community helper, but a teacher is. So he went as his daddy the teacher slash coach. Unfortunately, we didn't prepare his costume the night before and were scrounging around for a hat and a real coach whistle that morning--we had to do with what we had. He still rocked it looking looking like Daddy's twinsie! You can check out his hilarious school presentation video here. That kid says the darnest things.

let's talk about that daddy of theirs for a minute...or not. just look at this:

That's right, my husband is a goof and dressed as a nerd for nerd day at school. The kids enjoyed telling him he had toilet paper on his shoes all day. I thrifted those suspenders and totally made that bowtie in like 20 minutes...I am in love with that man, guys! Last year he went as Danny Zuco from Grease {hubba hubba}...now if he would only go as a Spartan from the movie 300, I think I would love him a bit more.

Ok, enough day dreaming about my husband's bod....the local fall festival rocked the boys' socks off. I'm glad my sis-in-law reminded me of the event. I was quite impressed with the selection of activities for the kids and best of all? it was all free. YES.

As I mentioned in my past post, we {I} decided to not trick or treat this year because I'm sick of the candies...so we went to the children's museum for a bit. They did not give out candies & it was awesome!