Celebrating Halloween!

Here is proof that we celebrated Halloween this year!  The boys were train engineer drivers.  Ez was a driver for Thomas the train and Ash was a driver for a no name train. :-)

Don't mind the chocolate on his face!

This was pre- chocolate on his face. :-)

I'll be honest, it's easy for us to skip holidays.  The boys usually get pretty over stimulated no matter the holiday.  4th of July?  Too loud.  Easter egg hunt?  Forget it.  Halloween?  Too scary, too much candy, too much sensory overload.  Also, they still aren't really aware of holidays yet.  Even though Ez is almost 5 he wouldn't have a clue that we skipped Halloween, Thanksgiving, or even Christmas.  That's not typical for most almost 5 year olds, right?

Although, this year Ez has taken much more interest in holiday stuff.  We have 3 pumpkins on our front porch that we decorated for Halloween and Ez calls it our 'pumpkin patch'.  I also took him to Costco the other day and he took a keen interest in the Christmas aisle.  So he is slowly becoming more aware.

On to Halloween!  We went to a 'trunk or treat' put on by our church the night before Halloween.  They had a chili and cornbread dinner, then a costume parade, and then everyone went outside for the candy.  We came early so we could get a seat and avoid too much noise.  The boys would only eat the cornbread muffins and a chocolate cookie.  This was not a surprise. 

By the time the dinner was over, the boys were getting really agitated.  It was really loud and there was a lot of strange and fun costumes to look at.  They both started running laps around the church.  This was our cue.  Even though I wanted so badly to have them show off their costumes in the parade, we knew they wouldn't be able to handle it.  I brought some candy for the trunk or treat portion too, but sadly we wouldn't be able to participate.

Running laps!

 The actual night of Halloween was the next night.  We dressed the boys up in there costumes again, and went around to our neighbors in our cul-de-sac.  They both only lasted a few minutes before they wanted to go back home.  I was really proud of Ezra.  He wasn't so great at saying 'trick or treat' but he was awesome at saying 'thank you' each time a piece of candy was dropped into his bucket. 

We had a great Halloween!  We had some minor tantrums, but overall a successful sugar induced coma night!