Halloween

This year for Halloween Norah was a cow girl and Alice was a cow. We owe a special thank you to Bryan’s mom who made Norah’s costume and bought Alice’s. Despite her expression in this picture Norah was very excited to go trick or treating. I’m not sure why Alice was so excited but she was VERY excited. We persuaded Norah to smile for the cameraI made Jack-o-lanterns with Norah during the day. We haven’t gotten around to carving pumpkins with her the last three Halloweens (her only Halloweens) and I wanted to make sure to do it this year. She has been pointing out every Halloween decoration she sees out her car window all month to me: “Look mom,  a spider” “I see two ghosts” “Look lots of Jack-o-lanterns at that house.” I kept waiting for a quiet evening when we could carve pumpkins with Bryan but no such evening came so after a month of procrastination we set to it as soon as she came home from preschool. She was a little frustrated that she didn’t get to hold the knife but she really enjoyed cleaning out the pumpkins. This pumpkin with two bottom teeth was inspired by Alice Norah went trick or treating with Harper and Willa in the fancy pants neighborhood of University Park. We were told that we’d moms sipping martini’s and dad’s with wine glasses while taking their kids around and we really did! If only I had a picture to prove it.