This past week Soungsik, William and myself took turns being sick. Isabelle lucked out of it this time. Because of the sickness not much got done this week and Halloween crept up on us.
We have had a wonderful time this Halloween.
It was so warm this year that it didn't even feel like the end of October.
(It started snowing today, so we got very lucky!)
I am not complaining about the warmth - it was perfect.
Isabelle wore her rag doll costume from last year to school.
Her costume this year would have been destroyed at school.
After I dressed her up in this I wondered to myself
"Why on Earth did I make a new costume for this year?"
The answer echoed loud in my mind, it is because she is my first child.
It's easy to forget that you are a "first time" mom when your baby is almost 6.
I am sure I will have this revelation over and over again over the next 14 years.
On Sunday night we had a family party at our house.
It was quite fun.
For dinner people brought different kinds of soups.
I never knew you could get so full on soup.
It was delicious!
After dinner we got into pumpkin carving.
It was very messy.
Isabelle is looking at Cameron like
"What moron gave an 11 year old boy a knife that big?"
The answer is, I don't know, it wasn't me, and fortunately no fingers were amputated.
I had dreams of carving all 7 of our pumpkins.
After completing 2 Soungsik and I decided that was plenty of pumpkins guts for 1 year.
I did the ghosts and Soungsik did the cat.
If you ask Isabelle the cat pumpkin is hers. She did it.
I mean she did pick the pattern out and delegate a little,
we all know those are the most crucial parts of pumpkin carving.
Then it was onto the costum fashion show.
Ooh la la.
Best costumes of the year were the minions.
William thought they were real.
He was fascinated by them and just kept saying "hi...hi...hi".
All of the cousins looked adorable.
Hayden was using his Jedi force around the house.
It was very intimidating.
Lily declared herself the Queen of ALL People.
Yoda and the Queen kept battling each other for superiority.
I still don't know who won.
William was a puppy.
I am a horrible mom.
I didn't get very many pictures of William.
He never stops moving so I can't ever get good pictures of him.
He was a pretty cute little puppy!
William LOVED trick-or-treating.
He got the hang of it after about 2 houses.
After all he wasn't born yesterday!
Isabelle was a peacock.
We had fun making this costume this year.
Isabelle was especially excited to get to wear makeup.
She is as pretty as a peacock!
A peacock with attitude!
Happy Halloween!
