Okay, we carved our pumpkins the day before Halloween. Katrine actually managed to convince Elspeth that she should put her hand inside the pumpkin. Numerous squeals and exclamations over how gross it was followed but in the end they were hollowed out ready to carve. As you can see, we made two pumpkins. The face on each was planned out by the girls while Glenn channeled his inner carver to finish them off. I thought that they were pretty darn cut. Then during trick or treating we ran into the final two creations.
This Halloween, Katrine had two costumes. At school she was an angel but we told her that it was not a good costume for trick or treating give how cold it usually gets as no one would be able to see her costume. One of our friends gave us some dress up clothes recently and in the batch there was a gorgeous asian style dress. Then while at the dollarstore picking up her angel set, Katrine fell in love with a mardi gras mask. So in the evening she was a “Mardi Gras Princess”. It worked out perfectly as her rain coat fit underneath (you can’t tell but Elspeth also had raingear under her costume). The dress came home oh so wet but the child was toasty cozy.
Elspeth had her Kindergarten Halloween celebration on the Wednesday because they spent Halloween Day at the farm. A whole day in the rain. That said, she was super happy and pleased as punch to show off the mini pumpkin she had chosen for herself. She was once again an adorable penguin.
Ready for her first field trip ever!