Time for Trick or Treat

It's finally here, the day my son has been asking about multiple times a day for about a month now. So here's an idea of how we Halversons reveled in the festivities.


Serious contemplation of pumpkins prior to carving them up.



Pumpkin seeds are surprisingly exciting.

Here's the one he "caught". There may or may not have been a burning incident, so the pumpkins seeds are a little over-toasty this time around. Bryce still insisted on eating a whole bunch this morning, claiming they taste like coffee (which he's never had)




Ahhh, pumpkin's eating my hand!  3 year old boys...enough said.

Getting the very last ones out. 

Daddy decided to carve a fish for his pumpkin, so since daddy is Bryce's main hero, mommy got to make a fish for his pumpkin too. Mommy was also changing a diaper and making a delicious dinner of butternut squash soup at the same time, which explains why the parrot-lion-fish horror mommy carved looks a little odd. But a hammer & few toothpicks later, it became a poisonous puffer fish (another Bryceman fave) and he was back on board with the pumpkin carving awesomeness.

And here's mommy's pumpkin which perennially gets the short end of the stick after the other ones are done, while cleaning up, finding candles and getting into costumes.

(It's an octopus, following our sea creature theme, in case you couldn't guess. Not mommy's best work on the carving this year folks. If only mommy had that many arms....)

Below we have the pre-costume shot to memorialize the fact that we are all fed and breathing at this point of the evening just in case everything takes a decided turn for the worse. You never know with a 3 yr old and a 10 month old. In it you can see daddy's pumpkin which is a scary angler fish (like the deep ocean trench kind) He is missing a piece, so stayed tuned for a picture of the full effect.

Directly after we have a pretty good costume shot, all things considered (by all things, I mean that since the last shot Jocelyn jumped out of my arms and fell flat on her face while I was putting on her pants, so she has a bit of a goose egg).




We were able to recover and she did surprisingly well. (See facebook for action trick or treating shots). Both costumes were a hit with the neighbors, and J managed to keep her antenna on until the very end. Bryce did a good job knocking on doors this year, he even had a small lady pirate friend following us around for a while. (We have informed him that there will be no interest in lady pirates for at least another 25 years)

Loot!