Halloween 2010: Lots of fun!! Milo designed his own costume: Skelevader, in which he was a skeleton Darth Vader, complete with a battle axe. The day before Halloween we had a little Halloween party for some of Milo's friends. It was a total blast. We did tons of different activities, but the favorite by far was "bobbing for brains." I didn't want to do the boring old bobbin' for apples thing, plus the kids probably wouldn't eat the apples once they were gotten....so I set up four big bowls half full of water and threw two ginormous marshmallows in each one. We stirred the water so the marshmallows would spin and be harder to catch. Those kids played that game for a looong time. All of them had crusty sugar water faces by the time they were done, and even grosser, they were drinking the slimy sugar water AND eating the soggy mallows. Apparently we've started a new trend in Halloween party games because a couple of the kids went home and showed their siblings how to bob for brains also!
Some other stuff we did at the Halloween party: Paint pumpkins, make masks, color in fancy Halloween cups, make ghosties, make candy spiders and eyeballs, guessed the goo (covered bowls of stuff like peeled grapes, cold spaghetti, etc) and have a cookie race. We also made our own goody bags so the kids would have something to haul their creations home in.
See the pictures!
And of course, we wrapped Halloween up with trick or treating in the big development down the street from our house. It was downright cold that night; Milo and I went out for about an hour, filled his cauldron and came back home. He's already planning on what to be for next year....
