Happy Halloween!

We had a fun pre-Halloween weekend, as well as a fun Halloween night.  This post is full of pictures to tell the story best :)

Cooper was mildly excited to scoop out the goop from the pumpkins.  Jeremy was not.  And although I'd love to give him crap for wearing a glove (check out the pic) because he's scared of the pumpkin goop, it's because earlier that day, he received an RBO (really bad owie).  His thumb has a huge gash from a broken glass--he even had to go to urgent care to get some pieces of glass dug out and the wound glued shut.  I thought he would kill me when I wanted him to get gloves from the nurse so he wouldn't get out of carving pumpkins that night.  But to my surprise, he came home with a couple.

Getting curious...

Cooper decided to catch up on his reading because dad was taking so long.

When the pants came off, we knew it was business time.

Happy Halloween!

Cooper got pretty excited about the 'hot' candles inside

Our Izzy pumpkin and our Cooper pumpkin!

Halloween morning, Izzy got dressed in her little pumpkin sleeper.  I knew it wouldn't last the whole day with the way she's been blowing through diapers, and I was right :)  Good thing she had a 'real' costume for later on.

The cutest little pumpkin in the patch!

But I really don't think she liked getting dressed up... someday she will :)

A cute little kitty... who looks pretty grumpy.

And now, for the MAN of the house. Or should I say puppy?  This little guy was in love with his costume, and when he put it on, he was transformed into a wild man!

Cooper took only one house to 'warm up' to the idea of trick-or-treating.  After that, he boldly walked up to each door and knocked on the door, proudly clutching his pumpkin in one hand, and softly knocking with the other.  He couldn't say 'trick-or-treat,' but Jeremy said Cooper managed a 'please' and 'thank-you' at every stop. 

Ready to go trick-or-treating!

When they got home, Cooper wanted to 'fix' his candy.

And just before bed time, the Endres girls stopped by.  And this is the best picture of a 2 1/2, 2, and 1 1/2 year-old one can get :)

Buddies!

The next night, we stopped and Grandpa and Papa Kalal's house.  We tried to get Cooper and Izzy in a Halloween pic together, but it just wasn't meant to be this year :(

We tried!

All Cooper really wanted to do was build a fire with Papa, and then warm up his hands.

Oh, and run around like a crazy man.  How could I forget?

Papa and his little puppy.

Cooper is supervising.

And now they can admire their handiwork, Papa warming up his hands, and Cooper and Homer warming up their paws :)

Happy Halloween 2012