Halloween and Terrible Threes.

Clara fell asleep on me one Saturday afternoon and that's worth documenting as it's a pretty rare thing these days. 

(Stolen from Janille)

I love fall, and I love the harvest, fall stuff, but I really dislike Halloween. 

 I don't get the blood, gore, death, and grim aspect of it, and before I had kids I just pretended it didn't exist altogether.

Well, now my kids want to get dressed up and go trick-or-treating, and we did last year and we did this year. So I guess I can get behind cute kids in cute costumes and candy. ☺

 (But if it were up to me I wouldn't do it. Party Pooper!)

(Stolen from Janille)

That said, we went Janille and her kids, and some other kids and my kids had lots of fun. Aidan was a soldier, Clara was princess Sophia, ;), Ella was Cinderella again, Britton was Mike the Knight, but he didn't actually want to wear anything that wasn't part of his original clothing. I had been painting all day so I was wearing my painting clothes, I guess that makes me a painter? Or just sloppy? :D

 These two spend a lot of time together lately. ♥

So far, my kids don't really have the "terrible twos", we have the "terrible threes".  I don't remember Aidan really having a "terrible phase" other than the "I'm a preemie and a newborn phase" and that was pretty bad. :D
Ella underwent a personality change around 3.5 yrs old, and Britton seems to be doing the same thing. Seriously Deja Vu. Here's to hoping his teenager phase is a little shorter than Ella's was. ;) (is hers over?!?)