Bunnymort?
Grandma and Ana putting gingersnaps on a platter to go with our pumpkin pie dip.
Group photo outside Grandma's house.
Seth the magician and Andrea his white rabbit. Seth received the purple sequin jacket for his birthday from his brother Jason, and one of the first things Seth said was, "If I ever need to dress up as a magician, I have the right jacket." So we rolled with it. Gratefully our neighbors the Wests have a top hat we could borrow. Rebekah the scarecrow. Ana the baker. Miriam as Voldemort. Winnie as Snape. The Voldemort and Snape masks were difficult to make for this non-artist.
Miriam, Ana and Winnie loving the dogs at the party.
Andrea and her childhood best friend Lauralynn (Robyn's sister) visiting from Kuna.
Then the girls dressed up for school on Friday, October 30.
Miriam and Winnie in their respective costumes. Sizing down a graduation robe for an adult is tricky business.
Ana was officially in quarantine since she had had close contact (sat within six feet in class) with someone who tested positive for COVID, so she reused my bunny costume and got to watch her student council friends play Just Dance over Zoom.
Seth and I had had a talk with the girls who are still of trick-or-treating age, and we decided to play it safe and not have the girls go door-to-door for treats on Halloween night. Instead we took them "shop or treating" as the younger two called it. We gave the girls a $12 candy allowance, took them all to Winco, and let them pick out their pumpkins for carving and their Halloween candy.
It was pretty crazy taking a whole bunch of bulk bin bags to the checkout line. We divided up the girls' spoils on the conveyor belt with the pumpkins. The cashier wondered who got the pig ears as a trick or treat. (The girls picked them out for Peach.)
All the treats getting rung up.
It was a good lesson in budgeting and math. Ana learned that jelly beans weight a lot and therefore take up a good chunk of your allowance. Miriam learned that she needs to write down the number for each of the bins on the tags before we take them to the front to pay. Winnie learned that she can get a lot of different candies if she only gets a few of each. Bekah learned that $12 = two pounds of Swedish fish plus some gummy butterflies.
Then on the actual holiday, we turned the girls loose on their pumpkins.
Bekah scooping out her pumpkin.
Ana's mini pumpkin barfing out its guts.
Winnie carefully carving her pumpkin. It was the first time she actually got to do any cutting. She only cut through to where she wasn't supposed to once.
Miriam drawing on a mini pumpkin that accompanied her larger carved pumpkin.
Bekah with her Pennywise jack o' lantern (she picked a very complicated pattern that took her a long time, but it paid off!), Ana with her scary pointy-toothed jack o' lantern and her baby scared jack o' lantern, Winnie with her unicorn jack o' lantern and her mini self pumpkin (Andrea helped her carve this year), and Miriam with her half regular Jack Skellington/half spooky Jack Skellington jack o' lantern and her mini Sally pumpkin (Seth helped her carve this year).
The jack o' lanterns all lit up on the basement stairs at Grandma Scott's house.
Our COVID-safe trick-or-treating station at Grandma Scott's.
Miriam and Winnie decorating the trailer with silly string. They had hoped to use it on the man who lives across the street from Grandma Scott who likes to silly string the trick-or-treaters, but we came up with an alternate plan since we weren't going door-to-door.
Miriam and Winnie dressed up in alternate costumes to trick-or-treat at their grandparents' houses.
From there, Ana and Bekah went down to Grandma Susan's house to eat pizza and watch Coraline with a couple of Ana's friends, and Seth, Winnie, Miriam and I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas at Grandma Scott's.
