Cows and Pirate-Knights

Halloween is such a fun time for kids. Ethan is now at the age where he is looking forward to Halloween with all the candy, pumpkin carving, costumes, etc. We started Halloween fun with a visit to the art museum where they were having a special family day to celebrate and teach kids about Dia De Los Muertos. Of course this holiday and some of the art that goes along with it can be a bit frightening for little ones, but they did a great job of keeping things tame.

One of the displays at the museum was this carriage made out of sugar. There was also a chandelier made from the same medium that was quite ornate and interesting as well.

Next on the Halloween fun list was our ward’s Halloween trunk or treat. Thanks to such a fantastically dedicated and fun ward the turnout was great and the kids had a blast. Ethan could not decide on being a pirate or a knight so he chose to combine the costume as a pirate-knight. So he used his old knight costume and added a hook hand, eye patch and any and all household play swords or guns. I think he just wanted all of the artillery really. Ava was a cute little cow or calf as she was referred to all evening. I tried to talk Ethan into being a cowboy to make a theme of the costumes, but he was not into that idea.

Ethan also had a fun preschool Halloween party and then of course trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Since Jairo had class that evening I went out with Ethan and Ava in our neighborhood. I felt bad that no one would be home to pass out candy so I left a bowl of candy at our door. I figured if kids took too much candy no big deal; I would just turn off our lights when we returned home and be done with passing candy. However, I did not consider that my bowl would be taken along with the candy and was really not happy to return home to no candy bowl … especially given that I did not give thought to the bowl I used and had one of my nicer bowls outside.

Overall we had fun making new Halloween décor, trying on costumes and carving pumpkins. Jairo is always in charge of the pumpkin carving and enjoys making fun designs.

I think the scariest pumpkin is the one Jairo and Ethan carved a bit early and had molded by Halloween, but Ethan did not want to get rid of it until afterwards.