Halloween
Of course, the first major decision for the kids was to decide what they wanted to be. After long and careful consideration, Cees decided to be a wizard. Tim was going to be a ninja. Tara was going to be a Pokemon, no a wizard, no Ariel from The Little Mermaid, no let's make that a fairy after all. Jane enjoyed wearing an old Spiderman costume, hmm, I guess that was Spiderwoman in her case and Kate didn't show any preference, so I used an old Winnie the Pooh costume for her. Most of those costumes were in our dressup box, from former years, when I still bought my Halloween costumes. This year I wanted to make them myself, so I planned to make Cees's wizard costume and Tara's fairy costume last Sunday.
Halloween day! Tara started the day by throwing up, throwing up and throwing up and more throwing up... And Tim came downstairs complaining about a tummy ache and a head ache and was laying down on the couch, looking very down and sick... What a timing!!! But luckily, it was a short illness for both of them. Tim was fine after a few hours on the couch. And Tara fell asleep on a kitchen chair, then woke up just before lunch, requested frozen raspberries and yoghurt, and ate 3 big bowls of those. Then she was fine!
After lunch we did some pumpkin carving. We had 2 big pumpkins and I cut off the top and the kids
took all the goop out. Only the 3 older kids were interested, the 2 little ones didn't really get into it.
Then I let the kids draw faces on them and I carved them out. Tim and Tara put in the candles and Cees
lit them, they were happy with the way the pumpkins turned out.
Trick or treat time!!! Sander had come home early, so he could accompany us. It was COLD! But the kids had a good time anyway, we did a block in our neighborhood, which was more than enough and then went home again and had a late dinner, eating as much candy as they wanted! That was a big hit! :-) So overall it was a fun Halloween, I am glad Tim and Tara recovered in time to enjoy it.
Next year we will go trick or treating with six kids! I am 31 weeks along tomorrow, that means that I
can measure the remainder of the pregnancy in single digits. Hmmm, better hurry up getting our house
decluttered! :-)
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Halloween is a relatively new holiday for us, since it is not celebrated in the Netherlands.
But we have enjoyed celebrating it since we have been living in the States, and the kids didn't
seem to have any problems adjusting to it :-)
I made Cees's costume and Tim immediately fell totally apart! He wanted to be a wizard too...
So I ended up making a quick JoAnn's visit to pick up some wizardy fabric and spent
part of the night making an additional costurme for him. I used a witches hat for Cees, store
bought and glued his wizard fabric on it, but there were no witches hats to be found anywhere
anymore at this late point. So I had to construct a hat from scratch for him too, luckily he wasn't
very picky about it. I also constructed 2 fairy wings for Tara and a matching skirt. Made 3 magic
wands, 2 for the wizards, and 1 for the fairy. Oh and found out they weren't wizards, they were
arch mages! They spent a lot of time making spell books for themselves, with spells like
invisibility and explode clothes... Then fighting about who was more invisible... Those were the mages spell books, Tara's fairy spell books had
spells like flying puppies...
Later that afternoon, the kids really wanted to visit our town's haunted house. Last year we skipped it,
because the line was extremely long, but they had set their hearts on it for this year. So we made sure we
were there early. We still had to wait for a while, but not too badly. The haunted house was wonderful,
too wonderful for my kids! Cees was very scared and the girls weren't too sure either. Then when we
came out, they all decided we didn't have to do that again next year 'because the new baby would be
too scared!' Nice to be able to blame the new baby instead of admitting that it was too scary for them :-)
Cees was full of stories and enthusiastic afterwards, I guess it was a lot scary in hindsight. I agreed with
them, we are not going to do it next year!
We checked out the fire station open house, but that wasn't too impressive this year. Mostly a long line
for free pizza, not much fire stuff to see. So we went home again.
