Having Grace's birthday the day after Halloween really helps to bring October (ie "spooky season") to a complete and definitive end around these parts. And since November is chock full of birthdays and Thanksgiving and lots of other stuff to cover, I figured I better recap October before I'm drowning in "holiday season" happenings as well. Haha.
In addition to last minute costumes, cookie decorating, and care package sending to our favorite missionary, we also had the excitement of watching Jane (and the rest of her junior high band) perform with the high school the weekend before Halloween for the last football game of the season. They played along during the 1st and 2nd quarters from the stands and then finished things off with a rousing half time performance of "Crunch Time," after which Jane was finally able to split. Of course, we like to go big or go home in this household, so in a completely predictable turn of events, we ended up going straight from the football field to the ER thanks to Jane's asthma flaring up with panache over the course of that afternoon and evening. It had already been a problem for the last few weeks and since Jane had lost her last inhaler earlier that day at school -- and it was too late for a pharmacy OR an Urgent Care to be open -- the emergency room came to the rescue with an albuterol breathing treatment and a prescription for prednisone.
As for the rest of the solely Halloween-y activities -- the cookie decorating, the costume making, the care package sending, and the trick-or-treating -- I'm going to basically be leaving you with a photo essay. Hahahaha. But seriously. I'll add some commentary here and there, but the rest of this post is mostly a photo dump. #sorrynotsorry. Hahahahahaha.
COOKIES
A CARE PACKAGE
I had a lot of fun putting together this little spooky season package to send to Ethan. Along with some Halloween candy and a few decorations, I sent him stuff to make a 3-ingredient pumpkin chocolate chip cookie hack (1 can of pumpkin, 1 box of spice cake mix, and chocolate chips -- boom) and a bevy of letters written by the youth in our ward (MONTHS ago) that I finally remembered to send him.
COSTUMES
Alex was the one of the last minute costume choosers and lucky for him I found a super easy DIY Greg Heffley costume idea after doing a quick Google image search last weekend. I copied the whole entire idea and spent a pleasant Sunday afternoon sketching out Greg Heffley's face on a poster board and then cutting it out and glueing it to some heavier cardboard I snagged from the recycling.
After cutting the mask from the cardboard, I slapped on a coat of Mod Podge to "protect" it as best as possible and then hot glued some velcro straps onto the back to create a way for Alex to actually wear it as a mask. Elastic probably would have been a better choice, but I didn't have any and -- since I was throwing everything together on Halloween afternoon itself -- I figured something was better than nothing and we made it work in the end. Hahaha. (Side note -- the costume was such a hit and so easy {relatively speaking} to make, that I'm contemplating creating a whole cast of Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters for our whole family to don next year for our costumes.)
To complete Greg's "look," I used black electrical tape to make an outline on the front that -- combined with a pair of plain black shorts -- completed the illusion of a 2-D black-and-white drawing.
Sophie's costume was also semi-homemade, as in she curated all the separate pieces she needed to dress like a serial killer from American Psycho. And yes -- I found the concept slightly disturbing. Hahaha.
I know Grace was super excited with how her homemade Wanda costume came together and really went all out getting into character.
(She also had to get this cow costume for Maxwell to wear.)
Jane's was the other last minute costume decision and it came down to the wire as she finally chose to borrow Grace's Winnie the Pooh costume (from a couple of years ago) to go trick-or-treating with a friend once the boys were done and back home.
Greg Heffley from "Diary of a Wimpy Kid."
Isaac went with a classic superhero theme for this year and suited up as Iron Man for the evening.
TRICK-or-TREAT
The girls stayed outside to pass out candy while Scott took the boys around the neighborhood and I stayed inside with Maxwell to keep him from spazzing out with all the strangers coming up to our house all night long. (I was also able to get a jump start on a core element of Grace's birthday decorations for the next day, but I'll save those details for my next post.)
(Grace spearheaded an effort to chalk the sidewalk as part of our Halloween decorations.)
and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Grace REALLY enjoyed busting out this iconic Wanda pose at every chance she got. Hahaha. It was kind of hilarious -- not gonna lie.
And of course, she dressed her skeleton in Alex's old Ninjago costume just for kicks.
Happy Halloween!
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