Halloween

Last weekend was nice - good weather allowed me to take the kids to the park and played quite a bit with them on Saturday.

We carved pumpkins (well, they watched for the first 5 minutes but quickly got bored). Hope the pumpkins last to Halloween. We'll see.

We tried on Halloween costumes yesterday. Danny wants to be a doctor - again, and Fiona will be whatever costume we get her (she doesn't know what she wants to be). My mom found a leftover Fairy costume of my sisters. It's a bit big for her (being an Adult small), but that means instead of being a half-length skanky costume (as it's intended), it's a full length frilly costume that barely fits her - we will be keeping several safety pin manufacturers in business this weekend.

Here's last year's costumes - Fiona was Dora, Danny was a Doctor. Aidan was a lion. Aidan didn't last very long in that costume. He went to bed early so we don't have a picture of him in his lion costume.


One word of caution. Fiona is a blonde. Dora the Explorer has black hair. So, I bought some Black spray-on hair coloring for her "Dora costume". It was water-soluble, so by the end of the night, she was no longer Dora the Explorer, but Dora the Coal-Miner... I don't know what's in her mouth. Black Licorice? I know it's something candy related, but it doesn't look normal, whatever it is