Logan and I remember different traditions from when we were kids. My family dressed in costumes for the parade at school, and in the evening we turned off all the lights and played the candy bar game. The kids in Logan's family got to do a special form of trick-or-treating. They baked pumpkin pies for people they had chosen, and then delivered them while wearing their costumes. The kids would say, "trick or treat, here's your treat!" and they were almost always surprised when people would give them candy....until one year Logan's dad took the kids plain old trick or treating, without making the pies, and the whole thing was a bit different after that. Well, for our family, we decided that we could do a little bit of both traditions. We made treats and took them to some of our friends. 
We made the pumpkin cupcakes that we like to share, and got Elise all dressed in her Abby Cadabby fairy dress. She even let me do her pony tails like Abby's. When she looked in the mirror she said, "I look so cutey!" 
She was really brave about going out and sharing treats, and remembered her little saying as well. On the way home, we stopped by the store and picked up a couple heavily discounted pumpkins (they are really more affordable if you buy them on Halloween evening!). Then we came home, had some dinner, and (as Elise says it) "put some funky, silly faces on the pumpkins!" We had a lot of fun. Daddy got to do one pumpkin with a more complicated face, and Elise helped me draw a face for the other one. 
She also a very small, hand sized pumpkin for a couple days before Halloween. She loves to carry this thing around, especially in the trunk of her bike. It was really funny to see her get all dressed up in her costume, then hop on her bike with her pumpkin in tow. 
What a fun girl! And forget standing still for those pictures! It was tough to get a good picture of her, but we managed a couple...
We made the pumpkin cupcakes that we like to share, and got Elise all dressed in her Abby Cadabby fairy dress. She even let me do her pony tails like Abby's. When she looked in the mirror she said, "I look so cutey!" 
She was really brave about going out and sharing treats, and remembered her little saying as well. On the way home, we stopped by the store and picked up a couple heavily discounted pumpkins (they are really more affordable if you buy them on Halloween evening!). Then we came home, had some dinner, and (as Elise says it) "put some funky, silly faces on the pumpkins!" We had a lot of fun. Daddy got to do one pumpkin with a more complicated face, and Elise helped me draw a face for the other one. 
She also a very small, hand sized pumpkin for a couple days before Halloween. She loves to carry this thing around, especially in the trunk of her bike. It was really funny to see her get all dressed up in her costume, then hop on her bike with her pumpkin in tow. 
What a fun girl! And forget standing still for those pictures! It was tough to get a good picture of her, but we managed a couple...
(Again disregard the rest of this post...we're adding the pictures as of February 2010)We're gonna have to see if we can find out what happened to my pictures...if my computer ate them, I may have a good cry about it, and then we'll try to see if we can get ahold of some back ups!
No comments:
Post a Comment