Halloween 2012

It's that time of year again :

I ask myself why, oh why did I think it was a good idea to sew costumes this year?  Sheesh, it took a lot of time.  I'm not a particularly good seamstress and this machine gets use once a year, which doesn't help.  Lucy was determined she'd be a ghost and there weren't really any ghost costumes available for little kids.  I did for a moment contemplate the possibility of taking a white sheet and draping it over Lucy with holes cut for the eyes ... but I think this ended up cuter:

Poor Jamie, everyone thought he was a girl.  A beautiful baby with long, blonde hair and a dress?  Ok, ok, he needs a haircut.

We had a whole (g)host of Halloween fun this year, Audrey's costume birthday party, 2 parties at Small Wonders, costume night at gymnastics, plus trick-or-treating downtown in the afternoon and in our neighborhood in the evening.  Whee!

At Audrey's party we got a chance to whack at the piñata and play in some webs.  Web!

 Lucy was a one-handed batter.

We had some fun carving pumpkins at home.

Jamie was in love with the pumpkins, Lucy not so much.  We got a lot of "Eeewww!" and "Yuck!"  The video is mainly to listen to Jamie's baby talk.


Pumpkin Carving from Kristin York on Vimeo.

They came out pretty good this year.

 Lucy's face design:

 Wonder.

 So fun watching the kids together.