Happy Halloween!

We survived another Halloween!  Eliana was very excited about Halloween and talked about it all month.  The weekend before, we rolled up our sleeves and set out to carve our pumpkins. 

 

Of course, the girls wanted nothing to do with squishy pumpkin guts, so Elvin had to do the dirty work for the four pumpkins. 

Eliana did a little bit of the carving, but Elvin did most of the rest.

 

He pretty much did all the work while the girls supervised.

 

Elvin's pumpkin's got carved into Chewbacca.  (And Eliana asked who Chewbacca was, which took Elvin a rather long time to explain, and turned into a complete summary of Star Wars, edited for a very sensitive, easily scared four year old.)  Eliana claimed one of the pumpkins as her own and the other she claimed for Go-go, her stuffed animal cat.  The little tiny one the size of a baseball was Karina's pumpkin.  All these other pumpkins got carved with Hello Kitty image.  No scary faces on our pumpkins this year.

 

This year, a friend invited us over to their house for pre-Halloween dinner and trick-or-treating around their house with a bunch of Eliana's little friends.  But before that, the girls got into their costumes.  This year, both girls wore official Mulan costumes from the Disney Store. 

 

We did trick-or-treat in our neighborhood a little bit, before taking off for the party.  Our next door neighbors are very fond of the girls and said that although they weren't planning on handing out candy to any of the neighborhood kids out there, they did want our two girls to come over and knock on their door...  It was very sweet because our neighbor put together a package for each girl with candy, a halloween pencil, glow in the dark Pez dispensers, Halloween mugs/bowls, clips, and glow-in-the dark bracelets!

 

At our friend's house, we got together for one more picture--this time with Gabriel in a Yoda costume.  The costume is for 0 - 9 month olds, which is why the green skull cap does not fit on his big head and why the velcro straps that are supposed to clasp under his chin are dangling partway  down his cheeks.

 

The girls had a fun night out trick-or-treating and we hope you did too!