Assorted Halloween pictures

One quarter of our household absolutely loves Halloween. The rest of us are pretty lukewarm about it. Can you guess who it is? Nathan just yesterday designated all of us permanent Halloween identities: Nathan dragon, Clara witch, mom mummy and dad vampire. I'm trying to get him psyched up for Thanksgiving so we can leave Halloween behind, but Thanksgiving isn't spooky. And for a boy who's been sleeping with a spooky pillowcase for the last three months, turkeys and cornucopias just can't compete. He hasn't yet learned the allure of all that pie.

All told in the month of October, we went to two Halloween parties, had one pizza and pumpkin night, and oh, what else? Oh, yes. We tore apart our basement. It's making nice progress, but until then, here's some Halloween pictures.

 Rules for donuts on a string really don't apply to dragons. They just breathe some fire and donuts fall into their hands.

 We bought a pumpkin carving kit this year so we could do some different things with our pumpkins. After asking for weeks to carve our pumpkins (which we got to pick from a farmer's field a few weeks ago), we finally let him. Nathan was very involved in designing the scary face for his pumpkin. It had to have two teeth in its scary mouth, and he didn't like dad's idea of a jack-o-lantern nose. He even tried to help with the execution of his design, but. Give a three year old a knife? That's scary.

 Clara chose to have a kitty on her pumpkin. That's really all the help she was, apart from needing multiple diaper changes and having a really bad diaper rash, and at one point actually pooping on the floor. She was a little scared of the completed pumpkins, especially when we lit them in the dark.

 Clara really did enjoy her costume. She loved her hat and her stripey leggings. She just didn't want pictures.

Nathan never wavered from wanting to be a dragon for Halloween this year. He begged me for weeks to make it, while I purposely didn't finish it until the last minute so it wouldn't get destroyed before any of the parties. It looks simple (and it should have been) but I spent so much time on this blasted thing, since I made it up as I went along. I think it turned out pretty well, thanks to a prodigious amount of hot glue. Definitely better than last year's costume.