Halloween

Sylvia helped me gut the pumpkins this year.  She goes back and forth each year about whether or not she likes the pumpkin guts.  She wasn't sure at first so she used our salad tongs but she eventually stuck her arm in and said she liked it.  She drew her face (and arms) and then took pictures of me carving it.

 

Eric also helped gut and decorate his pumpkin.  The salad tongs came in handy again.  He told me the shape, size and location of his pumpkin's eyes, noes and ears so I could draw them on.  You can see that he likes big circles and wanted a sad face with teeth.

 

Sylvia decided a while back that she wanted to be a clown.  I showed Eric some different costumes but I think he heard Sylvia talking so much about being a clown that he wanted to be one too.  I had a baby clown costume so Drake got to wear that on our visit to Great Nana.  My aunt made Sylvia and Eric's costumes many years ago.

 

A friend from our old neighborhood joined us trick-or-treating this year.

 

Drake's clown costume wasn't warm enough for Halloween night so he got to be a dragon.  We set our candy out on the front porch so we could all go trick-or-treating together.

 

The clowns were both very excited about all the candy.

 

I wore my dad's "Dodo the Clown" costume out.  I put together a ring master costume for Dan but it will only be seen by those of you that visit the blog.  He did not wear it trick-or-treating.