Halloween 2011

Halloween was a little more subdued this year than last year because of the twins (you will probably get tired of me saying that) but I still wanted to blog a little about it.  Rob took the big boys trick or treating and I walk around with the babies a little and chatted with the neighbors.

I only made one costume this year and that was out of sheer necessity.  Cooper knew pretty early on that he wanted to be a dragon from the movie How to Train your Dragon, but not the one you would think.  No, he wanted to be Deadly Nadder which is the blue and yellow one. Cooper says he likes his claws.  The one that is in the movie maybe for four total minutes.  I had to google it to find out the name.   Marshall decided he also wanted to be a dragon but he wanted to be Toothless.  So, I jump on EBay looking for deals on costumes and would you believe out of those two choices, the one I ended up having to make? 

I give you Deadly Nadder and Toothless

Cooper was super excited because his costume came with a rubber mask and it looked kind of scary.  This was his first year to be something mildly scary so he thought he was cool. In fact, he kept asking me if he was scarier than Marshall.

Marshall loved being toothless even in the goofy mask I made him.  The boys were very quick to tell me that Toothless did not have pointy horns so I had to make curvy ones.  I wish I would have gotten more pictures but I have twins so...

Speaking of my sweet babies, this photo pretty much sums up all I could say:

Next year I am looking forward to dressing them all up in an outrageously embarrassing ensemble while I still can.  I need some ideas so please share!

Two more make four

So I had a small problem after having the twins and that was the title of my blog no longer worked.  Brown and Blue referred to my two sons eye color and I know have four boys, three of which are blue.  So, I thought I would rename it after the most common phrase I hear when out and about with my boys.  So, I give you "You have four boys?"

A close second was "So are you going to try for a girl?" but I like the positive of having four boys not the insinuation that I am somehow missing something.

So here are Barrett and Graham right after they were born

and here are my four boys who are now 5, 3 and four months: