About six days before Halloween we carved out the time to carve up the pumpkins (see what I did there? ha!) that Terry's dad annually gets the kids. Here Terry is trying to take in Samuel's many words about what he wanted his pumpkin to look like. I tell you what, Samuel has come so far from when he was three years old when he could hardly talk at all. Now he probably talks the most, though it's not always clean speech. And he gets super anger if you interrupt him talking, he will yell out, "Quit taking my words!!"
Ezra actually didn't get his pumpkin carved into a face or anything because he just wanted to paint. And paint he did for over an hour. Layers and layers of green, blue, and yellow paint.
Samuel is showing his dirty pumpkin hands. He was so brave this year and just went after those insides.
I was gonna skip this shot except Evie's disgusted face was so funny. Ha!
Everyone hard at work.
When Daddy finally finished carving and scooping the kids went to work on painting their pumpkins.
Samuel of course chose red, his very favorite color. Also his pumpkin has a bunch of eyes with one big mouth.
Noah's was a Yoda face with Star Wars carved into it.
Paint, paint, and more paint for Dwidgie.
And Evie starting on her stripes.
We set the finished pumpkins outside the next morning.
The following week on Tuesday Evie fell sick and didn't really have it in her to walk around in the cold for hours and hours. And Noah is 12 now and has actually never enjoyed dressing up. So Terry took just the littles out this year. Ezra was obviously Spiderman but Samuel is a completely new character that Evie made up this summer, Dark Bubble Lord.
Sometime this summer Evie and the littles filled their time by making up a play. Evie of course is the mastermind of it all and made it all up and told the littles what to do. It's adorable.
So here's Dark Bubble Lord and Spiderman with the pumpkins right before they headed out with Daddy.
Bye bye! I only included this photo to show that there were others out and about too (across the street). But actually the night seemed a lot quieter than normal.
Ezra hated his mask because it was too tight so Terry wore it a bit at the beginning.
Going first to our next door neighbor.
And then two doors down.
His daughter was present with him, whom we actually know from Terry's dad's church. Terry was calling me the paparazzi right here.
One more shot before I went back home. They were out almost an hour and a half! They got two big bowls worth of candy, which was super duper good.
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