Costume fun

We dressed up the girls tonight and set out to meet some of our new neighbors and do some trick or treating. The guys stayed home to pass out candy. Tonight we had Mr. T, the lion that said "roarrrr," Miss O the banana eating monkey and Miss M, the makeup wearing Cinderella (this was a first). Miss O lasted about 20 minutes and Miss M almost an hour. Our 200+ pieces of candy also lasted about an hour.

Mr. T the lion, it was very cute, the face hole didn't have enough room for all his cheek chub.

The trick or treaters in our back yard (also the view of the back of the house I promised you)

Mmm bananas....

Cinderella standing in our back yard, you can see the awesome playground that is just feets away from our house in the pic below.

The reason we participate in trick or treating is not because we love Halloween or anything, but because we think its a good opportunity to be neighborly. However, we decided this year that trick or treating is a bit too scary for the girls. They get really scared of all the obnoxious decorations and freaky costumes. And for some reason, many adults think it is really fun to dress as witches or dead people to hand out candy. The girls would not even walk near those houses (which is fine by me). So, I think we will stick with church fall festivals or something in the future.

Mr. J and I are going to watch Expelled now, the new documentary by Ben Stein... should be interesting!

Pumpkin Painting

Although pumpkin carving is a fun tradition to do in October, we learned last year that it's not really the best use of pumpkins when you live in a hot desert. After about a day, the pumpkins start to shrivel up from the hot sun and look awful (see above). So this year, we decided we would paint our pumpkins. And being the mom of preschoolers, I had 2 very willing artists. So I got a couple paint brushes and some washable paint and we went for it.

Miss M making her rainbow pumpkin I painted faces on them and the girls got to pick what colors and shapes I used. Notice the green ears with pink star earrings.

Little bro watching.. we decided to let him have a turn painting and made a footprint pumpkin for him. I thought putting paint on his feet was less dangerous than putting paint on the hands.
Miss O and her pink/blue/yellow pumpkin with a jack o lantern face...


The artists after they were all done. I was trying to get a pic of the paint on their clothes but they actually look pretty clean. I think I need to purchase some smocks.

Stay tuned for costume pics...