A Super Halloween

   This year for Halloween, Beniah told me that he wanted to be a ghost. Now, call me crazy all you want, but I am not ready for my boys to dress up as anything remotely scary for Halloween. So, to Pinterest I went to find some alternative, homemade costume ideas that might look cool enough to convince my almost 5 year old to not choose to be a ghost.  During this time, Beniah and Elijah were watching Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on PBS Kids and Daniel was pretending to be "Super Daniel".  Both boys were super excited about being super heroes that they (because Elijah has to do everything Beniah does) decided to be Super Beniah and Super Elijah for Halloween.  Thank you PBS Kids! I can handle that costume choice. After a bit of searching, I found a website that gave a great tutorial for the cape (http://www.thethriftinessmiss.com), a second one for the mask (http://nonpareilhome.blogspot.com), and Martha Stewart for the Letter templates. The boys were super excited about the capes and masks that they wanted to wear them as soon as they were hot off the sewing machine. I soon had superheroes whooshing around my front room.

Although, one superhero didn't want his identity revealed and refused to look at the camera.

   I was not wanting to do the traditional Halloween night trick or treating with Tim working and me being 35 weeks pregnant, so we went to a couple of churchs' Trunk or Treat. The boys get the candy and I don't have to waddle as far.  Win - win! It was nice though, that Tim's lunch break coincided with the trunk or treat so he could see the adorable superheroes and help deal with superhero woes.

Of course, superheroes need time to splash in the mud puddles.

And Whoosh to the next trunk or treat.

After we dropped Daddy off at home so he could go back to work, we headed to Grandma's house.

Where she helped them trick or treat and I stood back, watched, and counted my Braxton Hicks contractions.

Once back at Grandpa and Grandma's house, the family of superheroes (a last minute, insistent decision by the boys) got ready for a small Halloween party by Grandma.

And after all this excitement you ask? Well, the two tired boys went to bed as quickly as this tired Mama could get them ready because Super Mama needed to put up her super tired feet.