Every day is Halloween

I realized today as I was posting about Halloween, that you wouldn't be able to tell which pictures of ours were from Halloween and which were from any other day. These boys are always in some get-up or another. Here are some of my favorites.

 

 

  

  

Brotherly love

 Boys are physical. At least ours are. Especially one of them. Archer has always been our little bulldozer. He'll run at you for a hug and just plow straight through you. He tackles his brothers - both of them - whether or not his brothers enjoy it. I'll let the pictures take it from here.

Notice how it often transitions from sweet(ish) Archer to "Okay, Arch, that's enough!" Luckily, it would seem that in another year or so, Archer will have some competition. Or a playmate. If Archer's lying on the floor in front of Levi, Levi will dive bomb him, open-mouthed. Watch out, Arch!

Halloween 2012

Every day the boys wanted to be something else for Halloween. At first I thought that would be problematic, but then I realized the beauty in it - I could pick any one of the things they mentioned, and they're young enough to still get excited about it! Ultimately we stuck with Henry's astronaut idea. Jimmy and I were Mars and Venus (we had a couples party to go to, so we had to do something that would work as a pair!). 

 We've been on a space kick lately, talking about space shuttles, the Mars rover Curiosity, planets, etc, so this was kind of fun. I followed a lot of the tutorial here, but used yard sale football helmets we had. For the planets, I just painted some cardboard circles.

As a fortunate misfortune, I didn't have any red paint (it was all dried up), so I used some homemade puffy paint from Train Up a Child and dyed it red. It turned out awesome! You can kind of see the texture in this picture - raised and rough, and it even sparkled a little because of the salt!

For Levi, we used water bottles instead of the 2 liter bottles.