Max didn't feel so hot on halloween. He's been a little sick for a while, and he had a cough that was definitely plaguing him. We had plans to halloween party it with our friends, but unfortunately the cough kept us home.
I had been hoping to get us over to one of the local farms for some pumpkin patch time sometime during October. I was hoping to get our jack o lantern pumpkins that way. But the later into October it got, the more I realized that we were not going to make it. The day before halloween I went searching for a pumpkin or two. In vain. No pumpkins to be found.
So on halloween afternoon, after we took advantage of the $1 chicken dinner coupon at boston market, we went questing after pumpkins again.
But no luck! It's hard to believe, but there wasn't a pumpkin to be found here in our town. No grocery stores, no nurseries, nothing.
So luckily Max had brought a pumpkin back from his school field trip. And we had purchased a really small one at Trader Joe's a while back just for fun. So we had had a little something to work with.
Max was all tired and a little sick, so we rented a couple of cheesy halloween kid's movies and let him relax on the couch with a cookie or two.
Then when nighttime came we worked on the jack-o-lanterns.
Max designed the face on his.
And I cut it out for him.
In the meantime Kris was working on the teeny one. It took him forever just to cut the top open. I don't think this little guy was meant for carving. He was HARD.
So Kris got out his dremmel to see if he could make something happen.
Max's turned out really cute.
the backside:
And we went and lit Max's up while Kris was still struggling with the baby one.
Kris finally got out his drill with a great big circular bit on it and got down to business with the little one.
The finished product? Pretty good I think:
We ate some dinner and then took Max out for a little trick or treating. Our neighborhood is great because the streets are small and twisty with lots of little houses--not many through streets either. The night was really nice, not too cold. There weren't a ton of kids out, but there were lots of nice people handing out candy and some fun decorated houses.
We had a fun time taking him around. He was dressed as Dash from the Incredibles, by the way in case you couldn't tell from the photos in this post.
He started telling everyone "Happy Halloween" after he had thanked them for the candy. It was so funny how surprised some of the people were that he was so polite. One old lady even called her husband over to see him. It was amusing.
After about 45 minutes Max ran out of steam. Kris had to carry him home. He had a total haul. So much candy. I don't know what we're going to do with all of it.
It was a fun halloween.
2 comments:
I'm remembering trick or treating. Dancing in the costumes mom had made, watching our shadows on the wall. One time, we were running across a lawn and we didn't see the rose trees that lined the sidewalk, so I ran into one and a thorn cut a big slice out of my face, right under my eye. But I figured that just made my costume all the scarier.
I hope he feels better, my little boy. I'd like to be put to bed myself for a day. With a book. And some Fresca. or something. or a cheesy movie . . .
Poor Max. Sick on such a cool holiday. I'm glad he felt well enough to go trick or treating.
You know, we've found the small pumpkins to be a bit of a pain to carve too. Good thing you had cool dental tools.
I'm not surprised that Max was such a polite boy. Half way through the kids' party I yelled down to them that if they ever trick or treated again in their lives they better say thank you!! Soooo many kids came to our house and most didn't say thank you. Just grabbed their candy and ran off to the next house. Next year, I'm gonna give em all tooth brushes. That'll teach em! :D
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