This may be one of my favorite holidays of the year....and this year was particularly wonderful because I feel like it was E's first "real" Halloween. I think he got the concept, picked out a costume, was excited about pumpkins, candy and even trick-or-treating. H, of course, just wanted to do whatever her big brother did, so she enjoyed it too. Halloween was on a Wednesday this year, and the weekend before it was homecoming, so we were super busy for almost 7 days straight! Sunday afternoon we ran around town buying last minute supplies to make the kids' costumes and spent that evening actually MAKING them ourselves...
Here's H's "Lil' Pumpkin"costume! I made the tutu, by tying orange and glitter tulle on a band of elastic (pretty simple, really) and added a ribbon. You might remember the onesie and leggings from this post.
Dr. M and I made E's "Planet Earth" costume by cutting out continents from green and white felt and gluing them to the blue shirt and pants (also simple). My fave was Australia on his little tushy :) Did you notice the little red heart on T-town?
He insisted on being Planet Earth. I bought a cute dinosaur/lizard costume that he was excited about for, oh, 30 seconds until he realized what I was trying to do and demanded to be Earth! He actually wanted H to be Pluto, me to be the Sun and Dr. M to be Mars....maybe next year?
Halloween events began on Monday night with a community trick-or-treating event on campus. All the sorority houses on "sorority row" open their doors to little ones and their families for a safe, fun night. They have games and tons of candy. There were easily hundreds of people there - it was crazy (and cold)!
The DZ house!!!!
Tuesday evening we carved two pumpkins and, of course, roasted the seeds (Dr. M's fave). The kids got a kick out of scooping out the "slimy" seeds and strings.
Wednesday morning was E's Fall Party at school. The kids all wore their costumes to school, played all sorts of fun games inside and out (it was a beautiful day!). H came with me and loved being a big kid with E's class.
After snack, we went for a hayride around the nearby neighborhood (H and I went too!). E was glowing the entire time, he thought it was SO cool. I loved seeing him interact with his peers.
After a snack and hayride, we hit the bounce houses - E could hardly wait! Even little H got in!
...then to the playground...
...and finally everyone took a break to enjoy some pizza and juice.
That night we met up with our neighborhood friends and kids to go trick-or-treating.
There were SO many kids (we love our neighborhood)! It was so much fun chatting with neighbors and seeing all the kids run from house to house.
Even little H got into the excitement. She was so cute!
We decorated the house with some spooky spiderwebs and window clings (thanks, Grandpa!) and, of course, our awesome pumpkins :) What a fun night!
Happy Halloweeeeeeeeen!!!!!
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