Halloween Night

After I planted the idea of being a bunny in Holly's mind, a friend of mine suggested that Ben could be a carrot to go with.  I knew I'd have to make the carrot costume, so I decided to buy the bunny suit so I wouldn't have to sew too much.  But when the bunny suit arrived, it was way too short for Holly and didn't come in any other sizes.  So I ended up making both of them, somehow.  It was my first experience sewing with patterns and it was a big project for me.  Luckily my friends are helpful and supportive, especially when sewing is involved.

Here was Holly's costume in the making, and I thought she could wear a bunny ear headband we already had.  So cute, right?

But when we took her trick-or-treating at Microsoft a week before Halloween, the bunny ear headband wouldn't stay on for even a few seconds, and was definitely not going to work.  So I made the bunny ear hood that was part of the pattern, which worked well, although it wasn't nearly as cute.  Here was our Bunny and Baby Carrot on Halloween:

We made pumpkin pancakes for our Halloween dinner.  Then Charlotte came by and we walked together over to Fountain Court, the assisted living home a couple blocks away, for some warm and dry indoor trick-or-treating.

After we finished there, Adam took Holly down our street for some traditional trick-or-treating.  I sat on the porch glider with Ben to give out candy.  When Holly got back to the house, she stood out at the end of the driveway watching all the kids going up and down the street.  When other trick-or-treaters would approach our house, she'd wave them in and lead them up to our porch saying, "Come on, guys!" Then she'd come take candy out of my bucket for her and the other kids. She was one enthusiastic trick-or-treating escort.