Thanks goodness for the miracle that is decent weather and no rain for trick-or-treating in my city! Anything the yields LESS whining and complaining from the kiddos (who outnumber us) is a GREAT thing.
This years costumes were fun (but I do say that every year). I start thinking about them in August (at least…not kidding) in case it’s something that I need to make…or track down. Fortunately I didn’t have to do much this year and you’ll soon see why.
Liam has a rather new (er…two month) obsession with the Beatles…as in the band (not the bug). He has a lot of their music on an MP3 player that he listens to A LOT. He has Hard Days Night on there too and asks countless questions about them (who sings what song, why are they running, why do so many songs have the word love in them) – he’s curious. So when faced with what to be for Halloween this year, he decided on a Beatle, Paul to be exact.
Or “Paul Beatle” if you’re taking to addy. On our way to trick-or-treating tonight he said, “I hope I don’t get chased by a lot of girls…” since that’s what happens in the movie. Cute stuff!
I’m pretty sure Paul was never this alone in an alley, you think?
Our second child was something that she could probably pull off every year…a fairy princess. And I have to say that she worked the costume. Her manners were turned way on and she parted almost every house with a “Happy Halloween”. I swear folks were dumping handfuls of candy in her bag.
Here she is flittering around in her element:
Another parked in her pixie house:
And a close-up in what we call her “silly piggies” – truth be told they helped her crown stay in. I was losing my light in this photo!
Our littlest guy wore the same costume that Liam wore six years ago. This costume is the first one that I EVER made and I love it. I love that I made it, I love that it’s stinkin’ cute and I love that my two boys have now worn it.
The little wise owl in his tree.
Or getting ready to take flight with the most adorable wings ever (and I’m so not biased).
He totally didn’t care about the costume either. He’s awesome.
Something else that’s awesome? Our pumpkins.
Friday night we FINALLY made time to cut the pumpkins (video coming soon). The kids helped scoop the goop (with a side of complaining) and then hubs and I did the carving. The boys did one and the gals did the other. Who knew that pumpkin carving could be so much fun?!?!
Here is the boys pumpkin (Liam first requested a Beatles one but daddy was a big intimidated)…this was next on the list of options.
And this was the girls pumpkin. Obviously not MY choice!!!
Happy Halloween!
that owl costume is most adorable – and how neat that both of your guys got to wear it.