Halloween at home

Sunday night we finally got around to bringing in our 3 teeny pumpkins from my garden. We decided to forgo the time and mess that carving would take since we'd end up doing all the work anyway. Instead we got out some crayons and let Kai color on his pumpkin. Daddy made one as well and I drew on one for Desmond. Malakai loved it and there was no mess to clean up!

Last year we got Kai all dressed up and took him to a Harvest Party with some friends. It was a lot of fun and we planned on doing the same thing this year, but Malakai ended up being sick. He'd been chewing on his fingers and drooling a bit so we thought he was just working on his molars. We thought the congestion and snoring were part of teething until he developed a cough yesterday morning. So we decided to avoid spreading his cold and stay in. What a bummer.

However, Malakai refuses to wear anything but his jammies these days. Getting him to wear jeans and a T-shirt ends in a wrestling match and lots of tears. So we knew getting him to wear a costume would be next to impossible. We were going to just let him wear his jammies to the Harvest party. I'm so glad we didn't spend any money on a costume since we stayed in. Ben + I decided to join him and wear our jammies too...

I was starting to envy all my friends' photos on facebook of cute little puppies, monsters, and ladybugs so I had to at least dress Desmond up. I put him in Kai's first Halloween outfit...

Not only did Kai not want to get dressed, he wouldn't even wear his shirt yesterday, at least he was wearing pants, albeit jammies, but pants just the same. Oh toddlers.

Desmond was back + forth between tolerating my photo session and getting a little cranky about the oversized fluff I had him wearing.

Despite Kai being sick we had a nice quiet evening at home, just the 4 of us. Sadly, the evening ended with Desmond having his first crying fit ever. He's been pretty easy to console (food, swaddle, clean diaper, snuggle,  or sleep) but last night he kept screaming. We assumed he had a tummy ache and did what we could to console him. He'd fall asleep for a short period and then wake up super mad again. He was also having a hard time eating. Around 5am we woke to his joining Malakai in a chorus of snores. His first cold. I woke with a sore throat and wonder if that what had been bugging him the night before. Ironically Malakai was also 3 weeks old when he had his first cold...and it was August!

Kai magically slept (and snored) right through all of baby brother's crying and woke up in a good mood. So here we are, 3 out of the 4 of us sick. I'm thankful Ben is feeling well since he doesn't have any sick leave at work. I'm praying hard that he stays healthy and that the little boys and myself get over this quick!