Cae is going to be a dalmation and I am going to be a firefighter, not sure about my partner. We are going to a birthday party of a kid from his new school then trick or treating. I'm gonna babysit later so J and my friend G can go see Saul Williams together. Then maybe J and I will go out.

I am due October 30th, so I haven't made any big plans.

My son already has a Spiderman costume, that he is in love with. I have had to hide it, so it does not get destroyed before Halloween. If my husband goes out, he will probably be dressing as a monkey again....same costume from last year. Lol.

We do the trick-or-treating stuff, thats about it. We have been decorating the house with dollar store things.. we also have some Halloween art stuff to do...my son glued a bunch of eyes and glitter on a pumpkin.

We're going to be skipping arm and arm in the local halloween parade, singing "follow the yellow brick road!" My daughter is Dorothy, my son is Tin Man, I'm the Scarecrow, and my man is the Lion.

After that, my kids are going trick or treating with my son's dad, and my bf and I are going to a shakespeare play. I'm going to wear a fabulous red dress to the play.

My bf actually opened for Saul Williams a few years ago with his own spoken word. It was a really awesome experience for him!

DD is going to be a cat. She is very excited! We're going trick-or-treating and then to a Halloween party. I'm not sure if I'm dressing up, but I might get some cat ears and tail or something so I can be a mama cat.

Blake is going to be Elmo, and Alexa wants to be a witch. I an talking her into being KiKi (from Kiki's delivery service).

I have no idea what the kids are going to be yet. Probably whatever they have left at the store when we finally get there. Lex wants to be a princess, but I'm hoping we can talk her out of that, she's almost always a princess. We're just doing trick-or-treating, very low key.

Mamabutterfly: I'm jealous of how together you have it with the costumes. T keeps bugging me to dress up, but I'm worried about finishing her costume in time.

My son's going to be a tiger and I haven't decided what I'm going to be. I'm just excited for his 1st halloween =]

F's going as a "soldier," by which he means a medieval knight type of thing, which we'll be creating from a mismatch of things we have around the house. He really wants me to dress up too, but we'll see.

What are y'all's policies about halloween candy? Do you let your kids have all the candy they get? One per night? Can they pick a certain number of candies to keep? I'm debating what to do - I definitely don't want a month long sugar fest.

I saw this idea in a parenting magazine, it's a tooth fairy type idea that I want to keep in mind for when DD is of trick or treating age. You let the kids pick out a certain number of pieces of candy, and when they go to sleep that night they leave the rest by their bed. When the kiddos are asleep, you replace the candy with maybe a coloring book, or little dollar store toys. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.

Halloween kind of weirds my SO out, he was raised Pentacostal and never did the Halloween thing... He is no longer Pentacostal, but the idea of dressing up DD is still weird for him. If he IS comfortable with it, I'm going to stuff black socks and sew them to a black body suit, and Avery will be a spider, and I'll be the web with black yarn on a white skirt. Very simple. I saw this costume on Martha Stewart :

Cae is allowed one dessert (ie one piece of candy, a couple bites of ice cream) after dinner if he asks for it. This means his Halloween candy last months and months because he rarely remembers to ask for it and J and I aren't big candy eaters. We eventually throw the rest away.

We do the Halloween fairy thing, though I don't let her have any candy. She's never had candy, so she doesn't have a strong desire for it.

We let them have a few pieces a day for the first week or so, then it peters off into one a day or less. SO and I usually end up eating the vast majority of their candy. Even so, we still have a few stray suckers and tootsie rolls hanging around from last year.

I let them have two or three peices on Halloween night (unless they've been eating cookies and other treats). Then I pretty much do what adcaela said. If they ask, they get one peice after dinner each night, but only if they've behaved that day, eaten their dinner, and haven't had any other treats. It's also considered "house candy" and everyone has to share.

My son is going as the black spiderman, he is really excited and I am too because he is wearing a costume that my boyfriend got him for his birthday so I don't have to do anything for his costume this year! The plan is to go trick or treating but this weekend there is a halloween event at this zoo near where I live so we might go to that if the weather is nice. As for candy, he can eat a fairly good amount on halloween and after that I limit to a piece or two a day. That is a good idea adcaela to wait for them to ask.

Theodore is going as Elmo, and Trey is going as Deadpool. I'm making his costume and ordered in some bits and pieces online to put it all together, since there are no deadpool costumes out there

I'm taking the kiddos Trick or treating, and then I'm heading to a party at my best friend Alex's house.

I think I'm going to get a bat-girl costume, because a) super heros are big in this house, and b) it's the only one I've found that goes past the butt!!

J will be the guy from gi joe snake eyes and my daughter will be a fairy bat. my eldest son will not be dressing up. me and gabe are going to a halloween party at a club and I am being sexy alice and him the mad hatter. Its gonna be great. Just doing trick or treating with the kids. nothing extravegant.