Halloween Fun

 Both Wednesday and Thursday we got to spend some time with Hertsje and Broeder.

They each put on many fun and unique puppet shows!

All of us took breaks with our technology. 

No TV though.
They enjoy choosing their own shows to watch and games to play.

Broeder also was AMAZED that I had gotten a new Lego catalog.
He calls it his comics.
I believe he has his Christmas list done.
I have a feeling it looks a lot like his uncle's (oldest son's) list.
We DO have Lego lovers in this family.

A few days earlier I had found a Halloween craft for 70% off at Michael's.
Over the years I have learned that if I present ANY of the grand kids with "this fun craft I found for us to do together" they would all twirl around in circles, fall to the ground, and wail "NOOOOOOOO!"
So I quit doing that.
I just laid the craft out on the dining room table where they could find it, and find it they did!
It is the only way any sort of crafting gets done around here anymore.
I think I have great ideas, OTHER PEOPLE have said I have great ideas, but these guys are not easily impressed.
Nothing happens unless THEY find it themselves, or discover me doing something on my own and ask to join in (a few of them still do that).

 

I'm not complaining!
This way works out much better for all of us!
It ought to be fun, and if it's forced on them it is in no way fun.
Even I dislike that.
Anyway..,
We made bats, spiders, and cats!

I do not usually decorate for Halloween, but I DID hang mine up!  It will last until THGGM notices it.

 Since it was Halloween, I also got out the dress-up suitcase and left it in the living room.
They found it!
I did not get pictures of the wild and crazy array of costumes they put together, mostly because they did not hold still long enough for me to get a picture before they changed into something else!
I wish I'd gotten a picture of Broeden in a 'coon skin hat and a fox collar.  He was adorable.
Hertsje "announced" him.  That was great too!

Jasmine and a Ninja

Then, in the evening, they returned to "Trick-or-Treat" and were the only two we had!
Friends of ours two blocks away had 200.
People just do not cross a street with a speed limit of 45 in the dark on Halloween.
I'm sure that's a good thing.