sickies dress up for halloween

 The kids came down w/ a terrible croup virus that lasted almost 2 weeks. Right before they got sick Will started talking about what he wanted to dress up as for halloween. Since they were all still in various stages of sickness and andrew was on a trip when the day arrived i was kind of hoping he would completely forget about the whole thing and we'd just make it up next year. Around 4:30 on the 31st i began thinking about what it would be like if he did remember the whole thing on monday morning and how horribly disappointed he'd be to realize he'd missed it all. So, i quickly got him and the girls up from nap, Will assembled his clown costume on his own, i found some dress-up clothes for the girls to wear, put Ben in his pumpkin hat and we headed out to trick-or-treat at a few houses around the neighborhood. :)

  the happy, albeit coughing, little group

 

  such a pathetic-looking little tiger- who wouldn't want to dump a whole load of candy into this little girl's bucket?? :)

Our little group ready to go inside, eat some candy and go to bed!