Halloween Projects

I've been having so many memories of my childhood these past couple weeks. With Kalani being almost 3, we've really started actually doing all the things you do with kids, and he is really actually being involved and excited about them! It's really been bringing back all of my memories of this time of year when I was younger. It's fun :)
We got our pumpkins about a week ago, but waited until this past weekend to carve them so that they would last until Halloween. We got four pumpkins, so we decided to carve all four pumpkins. Neither John or I had carved pumpkins in quite a few years. We forgot how much work it is! So we cut the tops off of and cleaned out all four of them, but only carved two. We'll get to the other two in the next couple days.




John wanted to save the pumpkin seeds and roast them. They are supposedly VERY good for you; they kill parasites in your stomach, which we all have. Anyway, I hate picking the seeds out of all the muck, just one of those things I remember really not wanting to do when I was younger. So he did it and we got a lot of seeds out of those four pumpkins! I roasted one batch with just salt and the other with salt, garlic powder, cumin, and chili powder. There good. I don't really like them, I don't like the texture. But there good :)
We took Kalani to a little Halloween Carnival on Saturday and he loved painting these little pumpkins. He also got a lollipop, which much to my disliking, is his all time favorite thing these days.




Now for the BIG project! Kalani was going to be a pirate for Halloween which I figured would be a pretty easy costume to put together. Then about a week ago we were talking about his costume:

Me: So you wanna dress up like a pirate on Halloween?

Kalani: Ummm, no. I wanna be an abominable snowman!

Me: You do? Are you sure you don't want to be a pirate?

Kalani: No. I want to be an abominable snowman with a pirate sword.

I continued to ask him every day for about five days what he wanted to be for Halloween just to be really sure. Every day the answer was an abominable snowman, with a pirate sword.
Sooooo, I don't like the idea of buying a cheap, crappy costume that he will wear one time then have it just sit around and eventually give it away. I wanted to make it myself. The seamstress that I am NOT, I've really been channeling a few important people in my life to get through this project; mom, first and foremost, I have been thinking of you and all the costumes, dresses, and everything else you have sewed for us over the years, and also my good friends Allysun and Angela. You are all creative inspirations to me and, so far so good.... !