She thought she was quite pretty.

We thought she was pretty too.

Chicken and his bow.

And then there is Chicken and his hard earned bow and arrow set.  He saw this bow and arrow set in Walmart a couple of weeks ago and he HAD to have it.  We told him not right now maybe for his birthday. Usually he will see something and forget about it the next day, but not this time. He kept asking when he could get it?  So finally Ben told him that if he vacuumed the kitchen after supper for 10 days that he would take him to Walmart and and he could get his bow and arrow.  They made up a chart for him to check off and put it on the fridge. Chicken was so excited to see the days count down. I don’t know how many times a day I would hear, ” Only 4 days left, Mommy………. Only 3 days left Mommy until I get my bow and arrow.”  So after all that hard work his daddy took him to  finally get it and he had to have a quiver to put his arrows in so I dragged out my sewing machine and attempted to make him one.  He was pretty happy with the results.  I remember my  mom spending so much time making doll clothes for me and countless hours on Easter dressed. And now that I have a Chicken of my own I understand why she did it.  I was happy that I could do the same thing for my little guy.

Well this year we took  Batman and a Princess trick or treating.  It was quite exciting this year we got caught in the rain.  It had cleared up nicely when we set out but a little half way through it started to rain and I don’t mean a drizzle. But the kids were troopers and did not seem to mind… the need for candy was a huge driving force.  Even Boo had no interest in riding in the car with daddy as he followed us around from house to house.  He opened the tail gate on the jeep and let all the cousins pile in between stops.  The saying must be true “the more the merrier”  because we sure had fun with all the cousins that were able to come. There were six in all Reed, Abbi, Madison, Ansley, Hallah and Katie.  I know the Chickens greatly enjoyed the company.

The Cousins

The process of picking out costumes this year was a little bit of an adventure too. First Mason was going to be a Fireman he already had the costume from a dress up birthday party he had been invited to, but then he got it into his head that he was definitely going to be Batman. We spent quite a bit of time trying to convince him of the coolness factor of a fireman but firemen don’t wear capes and I think that was a big factor playing in his desire to be Batman. So of course being the spoiled chicken that he is we began our search for a Batman costume. This must of been a very popular costume this year  because every store we looked in did not have it in his size.  But we finally found one after much searching at Walmart and it was the last one. After we got home and tried it on it was a bit big so I had to practically take it apart and then put it back together again just to make it fit properly… ah the things we do for our kids.  I remember my mom spending hours on one costume when I was little and now I especially appreciate the time she put into it.  But the end result looked great and he was so excited and that made it all worth it.  And besides Batman has been more then generous with his Halloween loot!