Drawing the face on Levi's pumpkin
Drake has never been thrilled about touching the pumpkin "goo"...but we got Levi to reach in and get some of the seeds out!
Here's Drake with the finished products! I realize now that multiple steps in the pumpkin-carving process were not photo-documented! Adam finished getting all the junk out of them, separated the seeds out to bake, cleaned and prepped the seeds for baking and carved the faces in the pumpkins. During this time, I was giving Levi a bath, putting him to bed, and then making carameled apples for the three "big" people in the house. And apparently, this is where the camera finally got picked back up again...
And here are our jack-o-lanterns with candles inside!
And how could a weekend be complete without fishing? Adam was off work on Friday, and Dave was here also, so they had a fun morning "ripping some lips" - to quote my dear husband.
On Friday morning, Drake's school had a Storybook Parade, where the kids could dress up like their favorite book character. Drake wanted to be Shere Khan the tiger from Jungle Book. (And yes, that's electrical tape on an orange t-shirt!)
Levi and I went to Drake's school to watch the parade, and it was really cute! There were a lot of kids who dressed up. Here's Drake as he passed by with his class!
The boys dressed up for Halloween! Levi is a leopard and Drake is the red Power Ranger.
Hard to believe, but my mom made the leopard suit for Drake when he was 2-1/2. It fit him very well for Halloween when he had just turned 3. Levi is 20 months! Hmmm....I think there's a slight height difference!
My sweet baby leopard thought the candy part of Halloween was pretty awesome!
Drake didn't want to go trick-or-treating, so we went to a "Family Fun Night" put on by a local Baptist church. It turned out being way more fun than trick-or-treating anyway! Here's Drake fishin' for some candy. (Note that he took his mask off - he still has a trace of Shere Khan whiskers on his face from the parade! Oops!)
I got Levi to climb inside one of the bouncy cages - this one was specifically reserved for toddlers, so it was safe. Once he got in there, he didn't want to come out!
Daddy with his baby leopard.
This was one of two BIG inflatable slides for the older kids/adults. This one was the smaller of the two, and Adam talked Drake into trying it. He wasn't too sure about it, but once he tried it, he LOVED it and did it several more times...
Then onto the REALLY big slide! This picture doesn't really do it justice - Adam estimated it to be about 40 feet high. (I wouldn't know; I don't do estimates like that. 20 feet? 100 feet? Don't ask me!) Drake had a blast on this one too. So all in all, the Family Fun Night was a success, and we even came home with a bunch of candy!
So that's it! Hope everyone else had a fun Halloween as well.
