Halloween is here already!
As is now a family custom, we carved pumpkin at the cousins place. The men did one pumpkin and the kids in each family did one by themselves.
Here is our creation for this year.. Drac and a Mummy..
and here is the entire lineup including the skull and moonwalking cat from BB and family!
The kids have to get creative this year for costumes!
This year the kids made me proud. Told them that we were on a shoestring budget for costumes when Daddy was going through the whole "job change" phase because that was the weekend we went shopping for costumes.
They dressed up as a cat and a devil. The devil costume will be retired this year finally as it barely fit the little one. She made the most of it in return for a promise that next year she gets a snow white costume.. a new one!
Here they are posing before stepping out!
They went trick or treating with their classmates while we (me and my parents) gave out candy to the countable kids who showed up at our door.
Unless we get streetlights, don't think anyone is going to come to this street for candy! Well, the street itself is spooky to start with... so one would think it will make a great Halloween street.. but NO!
The candy collection is impressive and that means the adult has to control himself and stay away from the bags of candy over the next few days!
By now I am used to Halloween. It takes you a good 10 years to get used to a festival you cannot grasp!
This year took the kids to a new pumpkin patch, let the little one play for a few minutes on the "jumpy thingys" and got two pumpkins. One for Jr. to carve and one for Team "daddy and the little one" to carve.
We did an okay job till daddy ruined the flying witch by detaching one side of the entire thing. Fortunately Balaji had enough small nails to get the witches hat and broom nailed back into the pumpkin. However, the nail head actually shows up in the photograph like bones in an x-ray! The other pumpkin came out great. Both Jr. and the little one are getting good at carving straight lines and small curves.
We are happy with the end result though and it goes out on display outside the house tomorrow.
Here is the entire linup of pumpkins carved by all kids.
The kids have been convinced to go low budget on the costumes and the older one is going as a cat and the little one is going to be a devil again. She is proud to reuse the costume on condition that she gets to spend the money on something else at Target. Knowing she will spend money at Target anyways, it is a win win deal for daddy!
Pumpkin picking at a local patch and carving it at Balaji's has definitely become a family tradition to the point where the kids ask for it like a routine and look forward to it for a week in advance! Guess this is how family traditions start..
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