Halloween was as much anticipated as ever as we made Halloween costumes and the kids dreamed about all the candy. We carved pumpkins with our friends a week before Halloween, which ended up with the parents and older kids doing most of the work after the initial excitement wore off for the younger kids, but they were still enchanted by the fun of a carved pumpkin.
We've also been loving the fall colors, which are now all blown off the trees after the terrible wind storm that happened on Halloween night.
It was a bit windy and quite rainy all during trick-or-treating, so we only did a few streets, but the kids got plenty of treats and also enjoyed watching "Its the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" afterward. Trevor dressed up as a fox- my favorite costume of all time! I made this costume for Asher when he was two and Leif wore it too, so now it was Trevor's turn. It took a bit of convincing at first since he wanted to be something else, but once he saw the tail, he was in love and was very protective of it. I teased him a bunch that I was going to cut it off because the first time he put the costume on, he told me not to pull the tail off (not really sure where that idea came from in the first place)
Heidi has wanted to be a unicorn since last Halloween, so we made all her dreams come true with this costume.
I had enough scraps left over from Heidi's costume to make a costume for Natalie- I only had to buy a zipper, so her costume was pretty cheap! I almost didn't make one for her at all because I've just been too busy and tired, but at the last minute, we decided to throw it together. The only participation she has in trick-or-treating was riding around on my hip as we followed the other kids, but at least the costume kept her warm while we were out.
Leif originally wanted to be a ghost for Halloween, and we made the costume by cutting holes in a white sheet, but he discovered that its hard to see out of and decided he really didn't want to be that anymore. I told him I didn't have the time or energy to make him another costume, but he was quite content with the Pikachu costume that Asher wore last year.
Asher wanted to be a blue dragon ever since he saw Trevor's green dragon costume last year. In an effort to save a little time, I found some blue pants and hoodie and just sewed the wings, spikes and tail on. It wasn't perfect, but it turned out pretty well and Asher was happy.
Here are all of our trick-or-treaters getting ready to go out:
And here they are with the treats they made off with before the rain chilled us too much:
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