Halloweenies - updated

We took the risk and used our "good" weekend to go to the cider mill, so by the time we went to get pumpkins the next weekend, it was very chilly! They only had big pumpkins left, so we got two and did team carving. Brett and Nora went with the classic happy face, while John and I went for surprised. We also had a two-faced small pumpkin from a few weeks ago... I helped Nora make a happy face, but first she wanted Brett to help her make a sad face, complete with about a hundred tears -- the end result was actually more scary than any of our other halloween decorations!

Nora showing me the tears on her sad pumpkin

Nora was all about helping with the pumpkins. When we were cleaning them out, she would reach in, take out one seed, put it on her spoon, and carry it to the garbage can saying "I LIKE helping!" Then she fed the carved pieces and additional seeds to my pumpkin's mouth while I was working on the eyes because he was, apparently, hungry.

This is about as excited as John got about pumpkin carving!

In an effort to go green, we recycled Nora's black cat halloween costume from last year, and John wore her pumpkin sweatshirt from her first halloween. Nora was happily on board with the repeat costume, this year calling herself "Big Fil" as opposed to her favorite guy, Little Fil (who she has lately taken to calling her "old friend, Filly Boy.") (Little Fil, by the way, is named after a real cat, who is named for the street/ President Filmore... I'm not just consistently misspelling it!) Trick or treating was a huge hit, though she never quite got the hang of the lingo, yelling out "Take Your Treating!" at each house. After she and Brett made the rounds, she hung out on the porch helping me hand out candy, which may have been even more fun for her! She kept asking where the kids were, and if she saw a group on the corner she would call out "hey kids! Come over here! I have candy for you!"