HALLOWEEN

Happy Halloween everybody!

We originally had some BIG & FUN plans for Halloween to spend the afternoon with Maeva, eat dinner at her house and then go trick or treating down in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood like we did last year (with Eeli.) HOWEVER, after my mom and I spent the entire day Friday on the sick couch, and went to bed super early so that we could try to kick this cold before Halloween, it is a wonder that I got to celebrate it at all. But, I did - because I woke-up this morning feeling a whole lot better - My mommy, on the other hand, is still coughing up a storm. So, we stayed home and opted for plan B: hand out candy and go trick-or-treating around the block with Papa.

My mom still managed to do some festive things with me today, though ... like carving our pumpkin! This is the drawing that I made for our jack-o-lantern. My mom translated my design to the pumpkin so that she could carve it out. The inspiration behind my design: "it is a scary face, because Halloween is a little bit scary."

My mom tried to translate the multiple layer eye with one portion of it not being cut all the way through... it kind of worked out. (I must tell you that my parents were probably more excited about this pumpkin than I was. My dad kept saying it was his favorite pumpkin of all time.)

We put the pumpkin in the window so that kids would know that we were home and handing out candy. And then I set-out in my bat costume to gather some candy. (btw: My mom did attempt to make me a ghost costume out of a sheet, but it was pretty much a catastrophe - not a good thing to attempt when not at 100%.) I had a whole lot of fun. Thank goodness I got better in time for trick or treating. When my mom asked me what my favorite part of Halloween was, I told her, "Getting this piece of candy" -(Junior Mints)- "I don't know what they taste like....."