Happy Halloween!

 Claire

She has been excited all week to go collect candy and when I bought the bag that we were going to use to give to others, she asked for candy all day! It was hard to say no when she was trying to be cute and looking back I should have given her more since all of ours was stolen along with the bowl that it was in while we were out trick or treating. She was really excited that I "painted" her face when we were getting ready to trick or treat after I had done mine and I was a monster. She has fun singing songs with me now and we have some crazy fun games sometimes that she comes up with and plays over and over.

Shay

She likes copying her sister so she would ask for candy too with the "eh" sound if Claire got a piece of candy and liked dressing up and getting her face painted. She wouldn't wear her hat when the time came to leave the house so I'm glad she did get the face paint so people could tell she was Pikachu. As good as she is at walking, she didn't last very long because it was hard to get her to be steady on the sidewalks we have around here but she rode on daddy's shoulders for most of our trick or treating. There was a house that gave her out dolls for little kids and she held on to it the whole time after getting it and we kept checking to make sure but she wouldn't let go until we got home and she realized it wasn't the doll that sings. Now she throws it on the floor when we offer it to her. Something not Halloween related, she likes to tap on me to get my attention so I will look at her and she can show me what she wants.

Pumpkin Decorating

Claire and Shay had a lot of fun painting their pumpkins this year and getting paint all over themselves in the process. I painted mine as well because it was easier and less messy. Chris decided to carve the Jack Skeleton so I painted mine as Sally to match and Claire watched us work after hers was done and drying. Shay used her fingers and we had to work hard to get her to not eat it or put it in her hair but she loved it and was really excited to finger paint. They would have done it for a lot longer and made more of a mess if I would have let them, but after mixing all the colors and putting 10 layers of paint on a pumpkin, there isn't much more to do.