Ella dressed up as a red devil again. We couldn't find her horns so they were drawn on.
She'd been wearing her hair in little plaits most of the week to get it all crinkly and frizzy!
Kit was back and forth on what he wanted to wear, but at the very last minute he decided to go with the costume he had planned last week-a celtic warrior. Of course he left it so late that I had a split second to do his tattoos and hair.
To him it's all about waving the sword around anyway.
Remi also rehashed his costume from last year and went as a dwarf again.
It is an unbelievably hideous mask-especially when he'd poke his tongue out the eye hole!
This year we were invited to the neighbourhood pumpkin carving competition, but didn't get organised enough to bring up a pumpkin. It was fun anyway and all the kids got prizes for pumpkins or costumes. 
After that we went out trick or treating...we had to wait for it to get a little dark. Kit got tired very quickly and so we went back quite early really. Remi had gone off to his friends and they'd gone out together and Oscar (who was bah humbugging at home) finally got his act together and went out with some friends (dressed more or less as himself). The older 2 didn't get home until nearly 9. They had enormous bags of stash. And then the mad "candy trading event" began, with Matt imposing candy taxes on everyone's stash. Fun!
She'd been wearing her hair in little plaits most of the week to get it all crinkly and frizzy!Kit was back and forth on what he wanted to wear, but at the very last minute he decided to go with the costume he had planned last week-a celtic warrior. Of course he left it so late that I had a split second to do his tattoos and hair.To him it's all about waving the sword around anyway.Remi also rehashed his costume from last year and went as a dwarf again.It is an unbelievably hideous mask-especially when he'd poke his tongue out the eye hole!This year we were invited to the neighbourhood pumpkin carving competition, but didn't get organised enough to bring up a pumpkin. It was fun anyway and all the kids got prizes for pumpkins or costumes.
Ella's friend from school was there with her family. I love little neighbourhood get togethers like that.
Kids of all ages running around together (it was a dead end street). Kids they know from school, and the really cute little ones. After that we went out trick or treating...we had to wait for it to get a little dark. Kit got tired very quickly and so we went back quite early really. Remi had gone off to his friends and they'd gone out together and Oscar (who was bah humbugging at home) finally got his act together and went out with some friends (dressed more or less as himself). The older 2 didn't get home until nearly 9. They had enormous bags of stash. And then the mad "candy trading event" began, with Matt imposing candy taxes on everyone's stash. Fun!Hope you had a fun Halloween where ever you are.
(oh and daylight savings ends tonight, and I am so looking forward to that extra hour sleep!)
(oh and daylight savings ends tonight, and I am so looking forward to that extra hour sleep!)
It sounds like a much busier Friday evening in Darien than it was in Wentworth.
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ohhh sooooo fun.. You guys ALL LOOK GREAT. Did Aunty George dress up??????????? Love the pic of Ella walking down the lane. taxes!!! funny. I remember we would let the girls gorge and then they went into the cupboard and were Dave and mine!!!!! Is it around 13/14 that kids stop dressing up? Why didnt Osc dress up? AND the floods look like they are going down...??
ReplyDeleteThat looks fantastic! I love it all! The kids look wonderful - Remi is soooo SCAREY!!!! We had a mini version down here at Ollie's 11th Spooky Party the previous week in Hobart with the kids all dressed up, and the house decorated with cobwebs and snakes and spiders everywhere - it was such fun and I helped decorate.
ReplyDeleteAmber wants you to know that she 'bah-humbugged' at home too whilst her friends all went to a tacky halloween do!
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