Halloween is such a great holiday with kids! They had all been deciding and re-deciding what they wanted to be for Halloween for months now, and as of the end of September, Kate had made a solid decision about being Rapunzel, Yeb wanted to be a knight (same costume Tam wore last year), and Tam was waffling between a fairy and a butterfly. Like, the kind that have sparkly fairy wings. Although I wish that a 6 year old boy could choose either of those costume ideas and not have negative social repercussions, the reality is that there probably would be. I was prepared to steer him toward a cool/scary butterfly costume idea if that's what he really wanted to do, but when Kate and I were at the thrift store and in addition to a perfect Rapunzel dress found a spiderman costume in his size, I decided to get it and give him the option to choose between a butterfly and spiderman. When he got home from school and I showed it to him, he was sold. I bought face paint, too, so that he could have the spideweb pattern on his face, which he thought was awesome.
We had a Halloween party with our Pie Night college friend group, which now includes a whole horde of little kids. All the kids had a great time, we ate a yummy dinner, and the kids got to show off their costumes.
There's not a picture of Kate in her costume here, because as soon as we got to our friends' house, she needed to potty, and right after that she decided that she didn't want to wear her costume anymore. Funny girl.
The day before Halloween we carved our pumpkins. We grew all of them in our garden this year, which the kids thought was great. We also saved the seeds and baked them with some Ethiopian berbere spice on top. Mmmm....
On Halloween evening the kids got the costumes on and we went trick-or-treating around our block and then to a few other houses in our neighborhood. The weather was so nice we didn't even need jackets!
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