We've had a great Halloween this year. Abby helped me make Halloween sugar cookies last week, but they didn't quite last until Halloween. So we made another batch on Friday and Saturday, and this time we introduced her to Adam's family tradition of using frosting to decorate cookies.
All set up and waiting for Abby.
Getting started
Tasting all the different colored frostings was definitely her favorite part.
Nora didn't get to decorate any cookies this time, but she enjoyed eating our handiwork! If you have a good imagination, you can pretend that you can see her new little tooth starting to poke through her gum in this picture.
This morning after church, we carved our pumpkin. Adam wanted to make it look like Gingham, but after he drew on the Gingham face we couldn't quite figure out how to carve it out, so we just drew a happy face on the other side (Abby's original request.) So we decided it's a "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Gingham" pumpkin.
Adam can never resist the opportunity to use the largest knife possible.
Abby helped pull out the goop, but then she didn't like how messy it made her hands. She gets that from her dad, so the de-gooping fell to me.
Finally, it was all cleaned out and ready to carve.
After naps this afternoon, it was time to go trick-or-treating! Abby wore her princess dress, Nora was a pumpkin, and I was a cowgirl. Adam told Abby he was dressing up as a dad, which she didn't particularly approve of (he was supposed to be a pirate.) But then she decided that Gingham could be a pirate, so the afternoon was saved.
All ready to go trick-or-treating! Abby's licking her lips in anticipation of all that candy.
Before we got very far, a man from the local news stopped us and asked if he could interview us as local trick-or-treaters. It'll be on at 10:00 tonight - Abby and Nora's TV debut!
In other news, we got a new couch this week. It's pretty exciting for a few reasons - it's red, it's a sectional (so we get a lot more seating in the living room) and it's new! New things are always kind of exciting!
The day it was delivered, both of the girls spent all day playing on it. They really like the new couch!
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