Halloween

Every year at Halloween the costume box seems to come up earlier and earlier. We still have every costume for both kids including the baby duck that both Callie and Carter wore for their first halloween. Callie would have been just three months cold and Carter only 8 weeks. Carter hasn't quite clued into any sort of gender role so Callie is able to convince him to wear all of the costumes he fits into at least once. He really pulled the witch costume off nicely.

I was hoping to spend more time on the pumpkin this hear and improve on the shading technique, however Callie had some odd ideas in her head about who got which pumpkin and Carter and I only got one pumpkin. We went with Agent P (Perry the Platypus) from Phineas and Ferb. Just a basic trace and cut. (Any pattern I do is going to be traced. I'm not that creative.) I also did a skull and cross bones for Callie which she took to the pumpkin carving contest at school. Not sure what the teachers are expecting. It's not like any of the grade two kids are carving their own pumpkin.

With such a wide array of costumes available including a couple that Kerry picked up at a garage sale up the street it was tough to figure out what the kids were going to be. I was certain that Carter was going to be Spiderman but in the end he chose the horse costume from last year. I think he felt a bit more secure plus the horse costume was much warmer. Callie didn't waiver. She was planning to go as a Pirate from the beginning. It turned out to be a very simple costume. The dress was something Gub and Gampoo picked up in Vegas and the accessories were pieces we had picked up for the Pirate Party on our Disney Cruise last year.