Friday, October 31, 2008

Halloween, in chronological order

I had a teacher work day today, which was lovelier than you can even imagine. No meetings, no students, just a day to get things done at school. Chad, meanwhile, took the kids to the Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose. Once we were all back home, it was time for some pumpkin carving.

The kids disguised themselves as a robot and a magician. Chad did an awesome job of transforming a box, some paint, and a few other knickknacks into Trevi's costume, and I took on the task of engineering Clara's hat to fit her, using the inner workings of a hard hat and a bunch of duct tape.

Then, off we went, to meet up with some friends around the corner.

Cute kids trick-or-treated.

They kept on trick-or-treating. But, wait..... Who is that kid in the grey sweatsuit, you ask?
That would be Trevor, who decided after about five minutes that he didn't want to wear his costume anymore.

After all of the tricking and treating, candy was dumped and sorted.

The kids each chose the five pieces of candy they wanted to keep (mean parents).

The rest of the loot was left out for the Great Pumpkin.

What will the Great Pumpkin bring????? According to Clara, it should definitely be something good, because it needs to be worth the 96 candies she's giving up.
Happy Halloween!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

the question is - where does the candy really go? Mom & Dad's tummy? : ) If you were back up north you certianly wouldn't be giving up the coffee crisps, smarties, etc :-)

Family Fables said...

that last comment was from me but i am sure you already figured that out from the Cdn candy selections. was signed in under an Alpha Phi account. Ash