We have officially made it to the All Hallow's Eve post, and it is not yet Christmas! I have achieved my goal!
This year has been so jam-packed with
stuff, that it's just flown by way too fast. Are we sure we didn't skip January? Or March or something?
Anyway, referring back to the end of October...
Fallon insisted she wanted to "roar" and scare all her friends this Halloween. Initially, she was thinking bear or lion, but when I looked up the prices of decent-looking bear/lion costumes, I decided she really wanted to be a monster. After all, monsters do roar. So, we headed to Old Navy and picked up a monster costume. To make it a little more girly, I attached little bows to the monster's horns.
We began our Halloween celebrations in the most appropriate way possible - pumpkin carving! Some good friends of ours offered to host our little pumpkin-carving party at their home. This is where I debuted my pumpkin spice rice krispie treats (I give them a 9 out of 10), apple bites dipped in caramel and white chocolate sprinkled with cinnamon (10 out of 10), and apple cinnamon muffins (8 out of 10).
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| Of course, the rolled-up sleeve stays out of the pumpkin... |
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| Leave it to Grayson to show Fallon the ropes. |
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| Our masterpieces |
Next up, we had the costume parade at Fallon's preschool followed by a few Halloween treats.
The weekend before Halloween, we headed to two different fall festivals, one hosted by our church, and the other hosted by Fallon's preschool. We didn't stay at the church festival long -- we went at the same time as everyone else in the world and many of the games, once we reached the front of the line, were really geared more for the older kids. But it was still fun.
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| Decorating a Halloween cookie |
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| Eating the cookie |
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| Throwing shoes at black birds (or crows, or ravens, or whatever they were) |
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| Mastering the bean bag toss |
The preschool festival won hands down for awesomeness. All games and activities were age-appropriate, and there were free hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, drinks, cotton candy, AND bounce houses. Three of them.
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| Bounce houses are the best things ever invented. According to kids. |
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| Face painting |
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| Fallon's first teacher painting her nails |
Oh, and of course, Fallon's longest-standing friend. They've known each other for 3 years now.
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| This was Fallon's third hot dog, by the way. |
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| We found an "abandoned" bounce house, so the girls had VIP access! |
During the day on Halloween, Mr. Almeda took the little one to downtown Woodstock for the festival in their city park. He is much better at soliciting candy and goodies from booths than I am. People just let him do whatever he wants and give him stuff just for smiling. It works out well for our family as long as he shares.
Of course, we must make a special dinner for the holiday. I whipped up some eyeballs, which she devoured.
On Halloween night, we headed to downtown historic Marietta with several other friends for Fallon's first trick or treating experience. We had a troop composted of a monster, a frog, an elephant, a storm trooper from Star Wars, and an airplane. Oh, and their parents, of course.
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| Everybody |
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| The trick or treaters |
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| The most ridiculous house ever. But in a pretty awesome way. |
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| Fallon's feelings about ridiculous houses like the one above were kinda like this. |
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| Unless they had pretty witch ladies who gave out candy. |
I have to say, she got the "trick or treat" requests down fairly well. Here it is December, and we're still munching on Halloween candy.
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