We paint pumpkins each year instead of carving them. It's just easier and safer when you have a million young children :) We always buy our little pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. Each child gets to pick three paint colors and gets their own paint plate.
Megan made two extra colors by combining paints.
Beth finished first. She decorated her baby wipe as well and wanted to be sure it was included in her photo.
Kylie with her pumpkin
We stripped Laura down as it's easier to wash paint off her tummy than get it out of cloths. She had a blast mixing all her paints together and smearing them all over the pumpkin and her tummy.
Eva went with purple. We didn't have pink.
Megan painted designs all over her pumpkin.
Somehow I missed getting a picture of Jack and his pumpkin.
Our theme for Halloween this year was Harry Potter. This was the first year that I didn't go to trunk or treat - I worked. I took the afternoon off and Susie came over and helped me finish all the costumes, but I had evening appointments that would have been difficult to reschedule, so I got the costumes done and the kids dressed up and then Rob and the kids drove off to church and I left for work.
It's interesting to see Rob and I switching roles. We really need two jobs in order to support ourselves and up until the past few years, Rob has always worked both jobs. He has sacrificed being able to be there for holidays and school concerts and special moments so that our kids could have a full-time stay-at-home parent. I am so grateful for his willingness to do this, but I am also grateful that I can take some of that on my shoulders now and give him the chance to be there for things he missed out on.
Anyway . . .
We voted on our theme for the year and Harry Potter won hands down. We let the kids pick which character they each wanted to be. Megan picked Luna Lovegood. Kylie really wanted to be a Quittage player, so she decided on Ginny. Beth appropriately picked Hermione. Jack choose Harry. Eva insisted on being the owl, Hedwig. We decided Laura got to be Dobby.
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