I thought I already posted about Halloween. I guess I'm more behind than I realized. Anyway, several weeks before Halloween we scored some more decorations from my parent's neighbor. They were giving away a few of those blow ups, so we snagged them. Their neighbors really go all out.
One of the decorations even had a projector that played scary, and not so scary, videos and music. We felt the scary ones were too scary to display in our front yard. I love Halloween but I am not about anything gruesome.
We went with a Toy Story theme this year. It is always hard coming up with a group costume that pleases everyone but I think everyone was actually happy about it this year. The key was that they all got to choose any character that worked for them.
We had Little Bow Peep, with her sheep.
A Jessie that Penelope and I worked together while making. We were lucky to find the hat at the thrift store, but the rest of it we made. I was disappointed that she didn't want to wear it to school. She was really happy wit hit, but at the last minute didn't want to wear it to school.
Rex. Calista was thrilled to wear the blow up dinosaur costume. She also didn't wear it to school but stuck with the theme and wore an etch a sketch costume.
Scarlett's was a little out there. She wanted to be a My Little Pony with her friends at school. So we are just going with it as it is a toy. Her friends came up with the costumes and they were all different ponies.
The boys were the toy soldiers. I once again regretted making this costume. It was an insane amount of work and way to much money. I'm sure I spent over $50 on cans of green paint. I also had to buy all the clothes and accessories to paint, which was $20 (from the thrift store). They did like them though and getting Tucker to want to participate in our group costume is huge. In the end the paint kept flaking off and neither of them could or wanted to wear them to school.
Bob and I were Mr. and Mrs. Potato head. I made these out of felt. It was pretty easy and probably only cost about $10 combined. I think they turned out so cute I'm going to save them. So they might make a reappearance one day.
As per typical Washington fashion it rained on both Halloween and the day we went trunk-or-treating. The former we got soaked and the latter ended up being held indoors. All the M&Ms were pretty much garbage because their packaging does not hold up to rain.
Tucker ended up having a bad fever and slept through trick-or-treating. Peneleope and Scarlett opted to go with their friends. So we had the younger three with us in our neighborhood. The houses are nice and close together and the it was the perfect size to fill up their buckets and be done. They even got about seven full size candy bars, which is pretty much gold around here.
After which we drove to one scary haunted house and then home for Spookley and candy sorting.
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