Happy Halloween everyone! Hope you all had good ones!
Its been a looooooooong time since I've posted but I'm back for good now to post regularly. Since the last time I posted we've moved house, I've gone back to work, gained a gorgeous little nephew and the little man just continues to get bigger and brighter every day!
All year I'd been looking forward to Halloween (as I do every year) but even more so now I've got a little person to teach the joys of Halloween to. I love to get into the spirit of it.....pumpkins, candy, decorations, fancy dress. Most of all fancy dress to be honest! So poor Josh had 3 separate fancy dress costumes to get him through the day (they actually turned out to be much needed in the end, since he couldn't seem to keep them clean!) He had a white skeleton onesie, a Frankenstein costume and a black skeleton costume - complete with a matching skeleton beanie toy and skeleton lights which decorated his pram during the trick or treating outing with my niece and her friends.
Still though, to me, these weren't quite enough ;) I'd seen people had cut holes in pumpkins and popped their babies inside and taken pictures. I loved this idea. Just to make it a little bit different to the standard babies in pumpkins idea, I decided to carve them into trousers. After finding the biggest pumpkin I could find (not an easy task on the actual day, when most shops just had the pumpkin dregs left) I got carving and persuaded BD to take some pics.
Josh loved being in there, so for good measure I grabbed my nephew and popped him in too. He didn't take to it so much at first until he decided to nibble the edge, then it took some effort to get him to leave it happily. I think they turned out well...I'm definitely doing this again if we ever add to the brood.
My sister had also agreed to throw my niece a little Halloween party and roped me in to help. I love party planning at the best of times but a Halloween party is always the best. I honestly think the planning is just as fun as the actual event itself! So after a little bit of research on Pinterest and just a bit of improvising we managed to get the boys down for a nap and got to decorating and prepping the food. I hate cooking but it was surprisingly easy when it came to Mummy Dogs, puff pastry cat and pumpkins, eggy brains, sandwitches and wormy jelly. My niece and her friends absolutely loved it!
I literally can't wait until next Halloween to do it all over again. In the meantime I'll try and calm down a bit because its Bonfire Night in 2 days! Don't want to hyperventilate with excitement....
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