Grandma and Papa surprised the girls by coming over to help carve pumpkins. The girls' pumpkins ended up being too small for the patterns, so Don freehanded his (the spider, can you believe it?) and I just cut out portions of the original template (owl). By the time we were done using the itty bitty saws to get through the first two pumpkins, neither of us were in the mood to do the same to Andrew's huge, thick-skinned one. So I painted a Frankenstein's monster on it.
(I'm sitting here coming down from a sugar high, so I apologize if this post is a little. . . off). The girls picked out what they wanted to be for Halloween again this year. Arlie picked fairy/princess and Andi wanted to be a bee. When I did the sketches to get an idea of where to start I drew Andi as an aviator bee and it seemed so perfectly her:
I'm pretty proud how it turned out! Arlie's costume didn't go as planned but luckily I had thrifted this fun dress a few months ago for her dress-up box and with a few last-minute tweaks she ended up being a very cute fairy. The best part is seeing their reactions when they see themselves in a mirror, transformed.
On Halloween, we very optimistically got into the car to go trick-or-treating downtown despite the downpour. The relentless downpour that hasn't stopped in 3-4 days. Optimism won! When we got to Trick-or-Treat in the Harbor the rain tapered off and didn't start back up again until we were on our way back to the car. How lucky are we, right?
When we got home, Arlie was really excited to hand out treats to the other trick-or-treaters. She even offered helpful suggestions to the kids on what they might find most fun in the bucket in her sweet little voice. She might have liked that part even better than collecting the candy for herself. Andi stood at the top of the stairs where she could see the costumes and made monkey hoots. Because that is what Andi does.
Well, I'm off to make some tea to try to counteract some of this sugar. . .
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