Loving Every Minute of it.

Since you very seldom see a mummie without her baby at a ward function, I thought it careless to leave these mummies without their babies!! These were so fun to make and easier than normal Cupcakes!! I have had a lot of fun this Halloween. I haven't even posted all of the fun things Cody and I have been working on.

• Pumpkins this year were white. We painted ghost faces on them with a little sign like our header.."The ooooowens" There was one size appropriate pumpkin for each family member.
• Since Cody's fascination/addiction to Martha Stewart I thought I'd throw a little fuel on the fire and let him make one of the Halloween projects from her "Good things...Bad things" special. We made the white chocolate ghostson candy sticks, wrapped them in cellophane, and put a little tag on them that said "BOO From Cody Oooowen" and he delivered them to his preschool mates today on costume day.
• Cute adorable little bats out of black card stock and hung them above his bed and outside the front door..... and no Halloween is complete without the amazing creations that come from fake spider webs which adorn the inside and outside of the house.
• I focused on projects that I wanted to do not ones I felt like I had to do like carve pumpkins or paint faces...or even buy Halloween candy. Last year we gave out Play dough, this year we are handing out Halloween Mechanical Pencils :) HEHEHEHE but have some white chocolate ghosts for Cody's closest mini pals.
• Here's a tip for all of you moms of tots....Allow your child a small selection of their favorite candy and suckers. The rest goes to the Christmas Gingerbread houses!! I do a ginger bread house with Cody all on his own and so I don't have to obsess over my perfectionism about my house at the same time as helping with his, plus I get to basically practice everything in a mini round so things are good to go when the real round comes for the .... gingerbread house of wonder :) Just kidding I think I'm doing a ginger shack this year...keep posted around the first of December....But save that blasted Halloween candy!! For once it's good for something! It's only a month away!
• Cody is my little prodigy I love him so much!! You are all thinking yea Cody...and Shelbi... It was probably all Shelbi...NO! Cody cut the words out for the tags glued them together to make adorable little tags(he used funky scissors so the cuts were camouflaged!) he twisted the bags over the little ghosts and attached all of the tags with a paperclip, added the glitter to the OOOOOwen family sign, picked out all the mummies eyes, played with all the bats and tested them out in their first at flights (they all flew perfectly by the way) and held them together on their strings withOUT getting any strings tangled!! He left that part up to mom. Cody's Ideas Fuel me a ton!

And the best part usually comes a couple hours later when he stops playing with his animals or flying down the stairs and says mom..."remember when we made those Chocolate Ghosts ... that was realy fun to do together. I LOVE YOU!"