Halloween...finally!

October was a lot of fun! The girls had been excited about Halloween for a long time. We started the process of choosing their costumes months ago. I let them look online and pick what they wanted to be. Their excitement was such, that they were asking me every day, "When is Halloween going to be here?" I decided to make a black and orange chain to help us count down the days. It didn't work so well! They both wanted to take off a link every day, and some days they would sneak the scissors and cut off multiple links, so our chain got shorter and shorter and Halloween was still a month away.

Alyssa and Holly made lots of fun Halloween projects in preschool throughout the month; bats, ghosts, and pumkin sugar cookies. Grandpa invited us to join him at his work Halloween party. We went with him to a pumkin patch and corn maze. Each of the girls got to pick a pumkin to carve. They enjoyed the hayride, walking through the rows of corn, the small train ride, the slides, and the hot chocolate and cinnamon rolls.

A few days later, James came over to help us carve the pumkins. He helped Holly make a frowny face on her small pumkin, and I helped Alyssa make a really happy pumkin face on her larger pumkin. They really liked putting candles inside the pumkins and turning off the lights to see them all lit up!

We had a special morning planned on Halloween day. We took the Frontrunner to the Discovery Gateway and met up with Holly's birthparents and other family members. It was fun to see Holly interact with them. She really enjoyed learning to climb the rock wall with Luke. She was bragging later, to grandma and grandpa, about what a good climber she is. During the afternoon the girls got their faces painted, made halloween masks, and we went to Costa Vida (their favorite restaurant) for lunch. We made it home in time for the tail end of our family halloween party.

Finally, it was time for trick or treating! We put on their costumes and drove out to David's house. The weather was surprisingly nice. I wanted to be able to get some good video footage, so we went out just before dark. The girls were a little timid when we got to the first door. We had talked about what they were supposed to say, but it took a few doors before they really got the hang of it. Uncle John was in town from Dallas, so he and a date came along too. I think the girls actually enjoy giving out candy to other kids more than they like trick or treating themselves, and they don't even eat the candy...I ended up eating all of it myself!

It was a very fun Halloween!!