Halloween

After getting our pumpkins at the pumpkin farm and from Josie's school field trip we got set to turn them into jack-o-lanterns. Josie was excited, of course, and insisted on pulling out her apron to help protect her clothes from all the pumpkin guts. She really didn't need her apron as her part of "helping" took about 5 minutes before she declared it
"too gross" and decided to go and play with her stuffed animals instead.
But she did pick out a few designs for me to make. I'm not an artist by any stretch and honestly kind of dread this part of Halloween every year. They never turn out very well and it is always more work than I anticipate. I told Josie that maybe next year we should carve pumpkins with Oma (who went to college in Berlin for art, wood carving specifically, and I'm sure would be MUCH better at this than I am)
Here are the finished producsts. Although they are no masterpieces, they are the best ones I've ever carved.


Josie very impatiently waiting for the rest of us to get ready to go out trick-or-treating.
Although he wasn't in it very long (he hated wearing it and kept ripping off the hood and then eventually the coat itself) he was SUCH a cute little tiger.

The princess coming down from getting candy at the neighbors house. She was in such a frenzy she kept telling us... "Sorry, I keep forgetting to say thank you because I'm just so excited to go get more candy" If that doesn't sum up Halloween for a kid, I don't know what does.

Benjamin mostly just wanted to drink his bottle and be pushed in the stroller. He has asleep by the time we got home.

Julie's cousin, Linda, came to visit us for the week and went trick or treating with us. (linda on right, Elli on left)

Near the end Josie was so tired but she kept wanting to get more and more candy. We finally just had to cut her off and surprisingly she said OK. She was ready to go home and eat a few pieces of her loot.