Happy Halloween!

Julia is SO excited that it's Halloween - so much so that first thing this morning, she decided to put on her "pumpkin shoes" and glide around the dining room floor giddily:



She had a great time helping carve her pumpkin; she drew the face she wanted onto the pumpkin with a sharpie marker, then helped scoop out the pumpkin goop and seeds. Madeleine wanted in on the action, and we really didn't want her anywhere near knives or choking-hazardous pumpkin seeds, so to keep her at bay I gave her one of Julia's "shoes" filled with a few boxes of mini Charleston Chews. I figured she would enjoy shaking the box to hear the rattling sound the chews made, but instead, she preferred to eat the box to the point that it started dissolving in her mouth and the chocolate candy was visible through the holes she'd eaten:


Mmmm. Paper.

Julia then got jealous that Madeleine was allowed to have candy, and started begging for some of the candy from our bowl, not understanding that we were saving it for our trick-or-treaters and she would get plenty of candy herself tonight while out trick-or-treating. So in a self-decided compromise, she got a chance to get her hands all over the candy by arranging it in the bowl so that it was "really high" so the trick-or-treaters could see it easily, because "I don't know if the trick-or-treaters know where our dining room is." She was a little disappointed to learn we wouldn't be inviting the trick-or-treaters up to hang out with us and that they wouldn't actually get past our front door.

Moving onto a new project, Julia decided that her jack-o-lantern needed a finishing touch, so she gave him a hat:



(May I interest you in one of these CVS trick-or-treat pumpkins? They're versatile! They can be used as shoes, hats, OR as buckets for candy! Try one today!)

Happy Halloween!!