While I love all holidays, Halloween is probably my favorite.
I've waited all year to go back to the pumpkin patch - I especially love the big slide through the haystack pyramid. This year I got to bring Keevah Nyx for the first time! She was too little to enjoy the slide, but she had fun eating hay and licking the pumpkins. I don't think she really gets how exciting this season is yet, so I'm trying to teach her. After the pumpkin patch, we had fun decorating our yard - skeleton bones included. I had fun arranging the bones, and Sister had fun putting them in her mouth!
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| Keevah Nyx waiting for the Great Pumpkin |
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| Cutest pumpkin in the patch |
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| Whoa! This one's heavy! |
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| Vroom vroom |
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| Say "pumpkin"! |
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We gave Mama a hard time trying to get a good picture of both of us - this is me not looking at the camera, and Nyx eating the pumpkin stem
 playing with the decorations. |
...she's a witch!
Helping Dada hang the cobwebs and spiders
Nyx chewing on the skeleton
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| Two little skeletons |
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| Did you know that pumpkins float?? |
Nyx knows how to stand and hold on with only one hand!
Carving the pumpkins was also fun. This year, I finally helped get the guts out - I have a mild aversion to getting my hands dirty since I know Mama will make me wash them. Mama drew a bat pattern and then I carved the whole thing by myself - can you believe they let me use a knife?
Getting the guts out first.
sister will put ANYTHING in her mouth
...the hazards of having an older brother
She probably won't fit inside a pumpkin again
Dada helping me carve our bat pumpkin...
...while Nyx enjoys the guts...
It was a messy day
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| Finally a nap after all that fun. |
I have waited patiently since November 1st of last year to bring my new costume concept to fruition. In case you forgot, I love fans. 2 years ago, I was a box fan for Halloween, and last year I was a wind turbine. This year I decided to be a.....CEILING FAN! I announced this to Mama on Nov 1st last year when she hopefully asked me if I wanted to be a ghost next Halloween. I followed this up with the statement that it needs to spin, otherwise it would be a "broken fan". So, Mama thought and thought and thought about how to make blades that spin...and finally woke up in the middle of the night two months ago with a brilliant idea of using a lazy susan base. We went straight to work with a metal drill bit to attach the fan blades and shoulder straps...and voila! My costume was done!
Keevah Nyx is going as a velociraptor since she sounds like a baby dinosaur with all her shrieking!
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My awesome ceiling fan costume
watch how it spins!
with Mama and Raptor girl
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| playing games at my school harvest carnival - I can't get too close to anyone or anything! |
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trying to get close enough to make my candy apple watching Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin |
Some funny side notes:
This is me 4.5 years ago
This sister...at exactly the same age
I made an electric motor with Dada!!
sister has a very strange peg-legged crawl
Mama left the shower door open while the water was warming up, and guess who crawled in??
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