Pretty Pumpkins

We spent the days leading up to Halloween decorating pumpkins!  I bought these foam pumpkins with face stickers at Target and Lane had such a good time making them.  This kept him busy and happy for a good hour!  He was proud of his creations!

We waited to carve our pumpkin until actual Halloween day.  Last year at our old house, some jerks smashed pumpkins on our street before Halloween, so I didn't even put this one out until Halloween night!  It would have been safe though...no pumpkins were smashed on our street this year!

Lane wasn't too into the whole thing.  He thought it was yucky and almost acted scared to touch the "goop!"  As you can see by the pictures he was not feeling it!  haha!

Finally got brave enough to stick his hand in.  But that's about as far as he made it before he quickly pulled it back out.  I don't think he ever touched a single seed or piece of pumpkin guts!  My little scaredy cat!!

He did enjoy playing with the spoon...

He would scrape out seeds with the spoon, but was careful not to let it touch his skin.  He's always been like that...doesn't like to get his hands dirty!!

Pulling out the pieces that were cut.

Our finished Jack-o-Lantern!  Isn't it cute?!  And I think I might have found our most perfect pumpkin ever this year--at the grocery store of all places!  It was nice and round!  

ring master-o-saurus

I went back and forth on a Halloween costume for Lane this year.  I finally settled on him being a ringmaster and Scout being a lion!  After searching Pinterest and finding nothing, I just old fashioned googled "homemade ring master costume" and found a couple of cute pictures and one tutorial on how to sew a ringmaster jacket.  Since I can't sew I had to get creative!

I ended up buying a red hoodie from Target in a size too big.  I cut off the hood and zipper and then just cut along the pockets to make it look like a jacket with tails.  I bought some gold fancy ribbon and fringe and hot glued the trim, chest pleats, and shoulder fringe.  I found a foam top hat from Michaels and used a white collared shirt with a black bow-tie from Target for under the jacket.  The pants are girls leggings that I bought last year for Lane's referee costume and didn't end up using and I attached a black strip of fabric as a belt using hot glue.  I finished the costume off with some black rain boots and a painted on mustache!  I found Scout's lion costume in the dog section of Target, and I used a hula hoop wrapped in Christmas tree garland for the flaming hoop!  I just love how everything turned out!

*There are about a thousand pictures, but I couldn't narrow it down!! :)

Lane had been telling people he was going to be a dinosaur for Halloween (a triceratops to be exact,) and told me after I made his ringmaster costume that he wasn't going to wear it and wanted to be a triceratops!  I figured I could construct something to make him happy and he could wear it to one of his Halloween events.  I used a baseball cap, tee shirt, and brown pants that he already had for the base of the costume.  On the hat I painted and glued 2 large styrofoam cones and one small one.  I cut a small styrofoam ball in half for the eyes.  For the "frill" I cut some sheets of foam and glued it to a black headband.  I cut scalloped strips from felt and alternated them on the shirt using hot glue.  I used a sheet of felt to make a long cone for the tail.  The same foam from the frill was used to cut some claws that were glued on to a pair of gloves, and I found the dino slippers at Carter's.  He loved it!

He ended up wearing the ringmaster costume to his school picnic and trick or treating, and wore the triceratops one to a Halloween story time at Barnes and Noble.  I thought he looked adorable in both!