I really wasn’t quite sure what to make of Halloween this year – I didn’t know if trick-or-treating would resume as usual or if Isaac would tolerate being put in a costume or if we’d have the energy to make it to the pumpkin patch, but…I’ve got a girl that loves all things Halloween, so the show must go on!
First up: pumpkin carving. Juliette has become a master with the little carving saw, but pumpkin guts still gross her out…
Carved in honor of Isaac, aka Grogu, aka Baby Yoda!
Some school friends invited Juliette on a scavenger hunt at Schmitz Park on Halloween morning – their dedicated mama got up early that day to hide dozens of small plastic pumpkins along the trail and then the kids were all released to hunt and find.
I love a crisp fall morning in the woods!
We ended the hunt with hot chocolate and a barefoot jog at Alki Beach. Cold schmold!
Because I couldn’t resist the urge to maximize our fun on what was a rare sunny weekend, we spent that afternoon at the Spooner Farms pumpkin patch, wandering the rows of their famous corn maze.
And we wandered and wandered and wondered if we’d ever make it out of there!
You can sense Isaac’s mild concern…
Really, though, a good time was had by all.
We eventually emerged and then Juliette took a spin on the cart course, Shane did some target practice with the pumpkin sling shot, and we called it a day.
(Look alive, Isaac!)
We headed out at sundown for some neighborhood trick-or-treating with our little forest animals. Juliette makes such a chic deer, no?
I had bought this fuzzy jumper for future winter outings, but figured that with a little black nose it would double as an easy bear costume for Isaac.
He looks very resigned to this whole dressing-up thing, like I can’t believe my mom is making me do this.
We met up with a couple of friends, hit up the neighborhood hot spots, and then after an hour Juliette responsibly decided that she had plenty of candy and so we headed home to tuck in the teddy bear.
Thumbs-up, October!
