I never was really one for the Halloween season (or Fall season for that matter).. until I had Cran, and then Beebster.
It's such a fun season! We've definitely been enjoying as much of the Fall- weather and everything else Fall-related- as we can before the lovely PA winter sets in and it's too cold to be outside more than 20 minutes at a time. The girls have been to Weaver's, Funk's, and Merrymead and love them all. They picked their big pumpkin at Weaver's to carve with Dan, and they carved it all together last week. Both Maddie and Faith scooped out all of the seeds this year, and thought it was great. Of course, Maddie was asking to wash her hands within seconds after completing the process of scooping pumpkin guts, but that's totally Madison. They have loved walking around the neighborhood to just simply look at all of the fun Halloween decorations. They love them all- scarecrows, skeletons, blow-up pumpkins, etc.
The weather is perfect. The leaves are beautiful. They love stomping through the crunchy leaves that are beginning to fall, and collecting colored leaves to bring home to decorate with glitter and glue. This week has been chilly enough for a sweater or sweatshirt, but not cold enough quite yet for an enormous winter jacket that then requires finagling to get the clasps on the car seat to buckle. Thank goodness for no winter jackets quite yet. I am not quite ready for that half-hour routine of winter jackets, hats, gloves, etc just to get out the door!
Not to mention, the excitement for Halloween and Trick-or-Treat is now creeping up on Maddie and Faith. They LOVE looking at the Halloween section of every store. And, today we got Maddie's costume. She'll be a cat, and Beebster will be Pablo from 'The Backyardigans.' The Beebster is psyched that Donovan let her borrow the Pablo costume, and loves it. She looks adorable, and it's so nice and warm too which will be a plus. Maddie so desperately wanted to be Aurora, but I was worried she wouldn't be warm enough in a short sleeved dress. So, she put an Aurora dress (and all the other princess dresses for that matter) on her Santa list (which she even spelled 'Santa' on, and is saving on our ledge to give to Santa in person when she sees him this year) and decided she wanted to be a cat. It was a very inexpensive costume, and it will come in very handy since we got a long sleeved black leotard which she'll be able to use for her dance class. She tried on the ears, tail, bowtie, and everything this afternoon and did not want to take it off at all. They will be so cute together this year. They have been walking around with their pumpkin pails all day practicing their "trick-or-treat" requests, and then filling their pumpkins with candy. I even caught Beebster in the dark tonight standing next to Maddie's bed and sorting through some Laffy Taffy in her pumpkin pail that she had apparently taken with her for bedtime!
11 more days til Halloween, and we'll certainly be enjoying the Fall while it lasts!
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