Carving pumpkins and lots of dressing up!

I got this cute skeleton apron as a prize at a pre-school parent meeting. It looks just about the same size as Tyler’s real skeleton!

Adam and Tyler liked to color their pumpkins before we carved them. Adam drew the “happy face” for me to carve on his pumpkin.

Pumpkins make these boys so happy :)

Why couldn’t he smile like this for his school picture?

Silly Adam!

And another great smile!

Tyler wanted to try on my costume. For once, we all dressed up and even had a theme! That’s a first for us. I found this shirt while digging in my drawer…Homecoming 1995…the back says: it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the class of ‘98. Pretty awesome, I know :)  And I made the green cape at the last minute out of a pillowcase. Alex had a black mask and a cape (which he didn’t actually wear) to complete the family of super heros!

Time to carve pumpkins.

Tyler’s pumpkin. The design process for Tyler - I would ask him, “Do you want triangle eyes?”  He would nod his head. “Do you want an oval nose?” Nod of the head. “Do you want a smiling mouth?” Nod. “Do you want teeth?” Nod.

Adam’s pumpkin – with the face he drew himself!

Erik got home from school just as I was finishing with Adam and Tyler. So then we got started on his big pumpkin.

Erik did “some” … aka “a little” of the carving on his. He designed the face for his on another paper, and then had me draw it bigger on the pumpkin. It was pretty cool with the three eyes.

All the finished Jack-O-Lanterns!

More fun dressing up in “alternate” costumes.

I’m not sure what this look is? Monk/ skeleton, holding a paper turkey?