We had a pretty good Halloween this year. As you can see below, Mandy was a fairy type thing complete with wand/cudgel, and Samantha was Supergirl. The best thing about Halloween was the pose Sam struck below, which pretty much captures every picture of Superman I’ve ever seen. She’s surprisingly easy to direct.
When we went out to hit the houses, Mandy started by going up to doors, screaming “I GET SOME CANDY!” and then lurching for the candy bowl if the unsuspecting homeowner let it anywhere near her. Seriously, if the person was distracted at all, Mandy would end up literally raking candy into her bag. We had five tons of candy at the end of the night, and here’s a fun fact: our children can’t be trusted to stay away from it. The morning after, Geralyn found a cache of candy wrappers behind some furniture, evidence of the girls’ clandestine trips to the top shelves of the pantry where we had stashed the sugary goods. So we punished them by not taking them to donut breakfast on Sunday morning. There.
We had carved our own pumpkins earlier in the week, and this was some fun. Mostly because of the way Mandy reacted with horror upon learning what kinds of things are actually inside a freshly punctured pumpkin and how those things smelled. Hilarious. Sam and Mandy ended up painting their own little pumpkins, which amounted to slathering every color in the rainbow onto the gourds, but they had a blast.
There was also cupcake decorating on the day before Halloween, and Geralyn went all Martha by topping them with candies like gummy worms (with cookie crumb “dirt”), gummy brains, gummy pumpkins, candy eyeballs, and more. We even let Sam do some of the piping, with pretty good results.
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