This post really could be three separate posts, but really Halloween seems like one, big, long day to me anyway. The Saturday before Halloween was finally pumpkin carving. Landon kept bugging me about it probably because he was worried that there wouldn't be any pumpkins left by the time we got around to it. Pumpkin carving is NOT one of my favorite activities, and this year I even had to do it on my own since Leon had to work. But, we all survived with all our digits intact and smiles on our faces...
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Landon designed his Jack-o-lantern himself, and begged me to let him carve it. I really did not want to add a trip to the ER to my to-do list that night, so I let him "carve" some lines as stitches. He was happy with the result.
Cameron also designed his Jack-o-lantern and wanted to do his own carving. I had forgotten that he's carved his own pumpkin before and told him he wasn't quite old enough. He was okay with me doing the cutting, but I know that if Leon were there he would have said, "Oh, give him the knife. He'll be fine." When Mom is in charge things go a bit differently, I suppose.
Jayden designed and carved his own pumpkin and was quite proud of it. I think he did a great job. "One less pumpkin for me to carve," is what I was thinking.
Dallin wanted to do something different this year and found some symbol from some game he's been into (Zelda, I think). He took some time on this and was quite pleased with himself and his "skills."
Me, on the other hand, just wanted to get my pumpkin done. My arms were gooey and my hands were sore. Not too fancy, but it does the job.
The day of Halloween started off with the school parade. Our school only has the lower grades participate, so this year I only got to see one of my kids. Landon was worried that no one would know what he was, but I think most people got the idea. Now, 10 years from now that might be a whole other story.
After the parade the classes all have parties, and this year I helped in Landon's class. Halloween sure does bring a lot of energy to the group.
Okay, so on to the costumes. Jayden had decided months ago that he wanted to be a "baby" - one of the easiest costumes I've ever done. But, in true Jayden style, he was the oddball in the family by not going along with the theme. What is the theme? Well......
..."Angry Birds." This was one of those week-before ideas which meant my sewing machine got dragged out for its annual run. I had heard that "Angry Birds" was one of the most popular costumes this year, but apparently not where we live. We only ran into one other "Angry Bird" the whole day. We got a lot of comments as we went around and the kids had fun. I'm sure this will be one of those character costumes that in 10 years we'll wonder what in the world we were.
The "Angry Birds" and green pig thought they needed to reenact something - not sure WHAT exactly, but okay.
This year I got the pleasure of taking the kids around Trick-or-Treating. I really enjoyed it since the weather was perfect and I had on good shoes. Leon made me wear the green pig costume (no pictures of that, thank goodness), which kept me very warm.
Jayden and his 'motley crew' had big plans for the night to get as much candy as possible. I think they succeeded.
Happy Halloween 2011!
