I LOVE Halloween!!! This evening we carved our pumpkins. We spread paper bags out on the kitchen floor. Adrian cut the tops off all the pumpkins and the kids kind of scooped out the guts. Sophie actually did a pretty good job this year with the scooping. But Ben still thinks its too icky to try so he pretty much just watched and well of course that's what Nina did too.
After they were all gutted we got out the power tools...:) Martha Stuart had a great idea to drill holes all over the pumpkins rather than carving. It was great!!! It went so fast and the kids loved "helping" drill the holes. (They really just sat with Adrian while he did all the work - what a nice Daddy.) Sophie's pumpkin has the dots all over kind of like chicken pox. Ben's pumpkin (or Jack-o-lit as he calls it) has a diamond pattern and Nina's has rows of holes. They actually look really cute all lit up - thanks Martha!!
I thought this year I might actually roast the pumpkin seeds for the first time but no luck. Before I knew it, it was bedtime and all good intentions for seed roasting turned to lets just clean it all up. Maybe next year...
Last night we went to the ward trunk-or-treat - sorry no pictures would you believe we forgot the camera - aaaaah! We had lots of fun (by we I mean the majority of us). Adrian and I dressed up as crazy cat people. I bought cat sweatshirts at a local thrift store and we pinned stuffed cats all over us. We definitely looked crazy alright! It was an easy, cheap costume and we won for silliest costumes - so that was fun. Sophie chose to be a witch this year (really cute orange and black witch dress and hat) and loved being in the costume parade and eating the Krispy Kreme donuts. Ben (dressed as Dash from the Incredibles) had a bad night - it was sensory overload for our incredibly shy boy and he spent most of the night crying, poor guy. But oh does he love his Dash costume. He wants to wear it constantly at home. Nina's costume is a pea pod - our little sweet pea. Its a great baby costume since its a bunting and we were glad it was so warm - it was cold and windy!! Sophie stuck it out in the cold and went trunk or treating to as many cars as she could before her bag got all filled up. Ben only went to a few cars, still having a rough time with all the strangers and costumes. He mostly stuck by me, I was passing out candy and every now and then he would say "tic-treat" and I would put a piece of our candy in his bag. It was cute! So all in all it was a great night.
Isn't Halloween the best!! I'll have to post pictures from the real trick-or-treating on Tues. I think I'll go raid the Halloween candy now - that's the fun part of being a Mom at Halloween! :)
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Ben had so much fun using the drill. I'm so proud. Once he figured out that holding the trigger down made the drill go, he was all into keeping the trigger down all the time, even those times that we didn't need to. :) I'm so pleased that he's taking to tools so quickly. Come to think of it, I think Sophie was about this age when we introduced her to the drill. I guess it's one of those rights of passage.
Nina may have been in only one picture, but she was very much part of the pumpkin carving. She watched everything we did very closely. You can just tell it in her eyes, she so much wants to be "a part of the action".
This is awesome! If I can find any pumpkins, I'm doing that TONIGHT! Sorry your little guy was so upset at the party. That's usually how mine end up. But this year Ethan refused a costume and Jeffy wet himself in his. So we had an interesting time too.
Love your cute pumpkins!!
Great pumpkins! I LOVED your costumes - super creative. As always :)
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