Stuart Family: Halloween and Pumpkin Carving

Jordyn wanted to be an elephant this year. I swear, every year I've seen an elephant costume at every store. This year we looked and looked and looked. We found ONE at Costco. It didn't fit. I found two on Craigslist. SOLD immediately. We searched online. None of them would ship in time (without paying out the nose!). What gives??? After reaching out to friends and family, my Aunt Nancy did a little legwork and found one at Marshall's. Wahoo!!! It was a realllllly nice one, too. We are so grateful. Plus, Jordyn loves getting packages/mail. It worked out all around. Jordyn is obsessed with elephants right now. Not sure why, but she loves 'em. I wanted Kennedy to be a pumpkin or something kinda "babyish," because she's still so tiny (and I'm trying to keep her a baby forever), BUT we found a really cute tiger costume. It just seemed to fit her face. It turned out really cute. My plan was to dress as a zookeeper, but that's another story itself.

The girls had all sorts of Halloween fun. We had a party at preschool, one with our playgroup, and lots of trick-or-treating. We started at 3:00 p.m. and made it home close to 11:00 p.m. Of course most of that was driving to the grandparents/great-grandparents' homes. Jordyn did a little culdesac near Jeremy's parents' house. Next year we plan to do more neighborhood trick-or-treating. The driving gets to be quite the event for them and us. Family party at our house: Halloween 2010!

This was the fist year Jordyn was interested in actually touching the pumpkin during carving--other than to draw a face. She used the ice cream scoop and scooped out some guts. After a while she decided the guts were icky and I should finish for her. Kennedy wouldn't even give it a chance! She took one look at the inside of that pumpkin and decided it would be safer to observe from a distance. It cracked me up. I took out a handful and showed it to her; she shook her head no and took off. She did like to see them all lit up, though.