So I still have some things to catch up on here, but I figured I'd go ahead and do Halloween. Because it's been so warm here (and I guess it usually is every year) we were told to wait until a day or two before Halloween to carve our pumpkins so they wouldn't rot too fast. So we decided to wait until the night before. Sunday after we finished dinner we started carving our pumpkins.
It was really funny. As the girls were finishing up, Robbie cut the tops off of their pumpkins and started scraping the sides, so all they would have to do was pull everything out. Gwen had picked out a pretty tall pumpkin, and for some reason it was a lot more goopy than the other two. So when she stuck her hand in, she wasn't too pleased.
Grace wasn't too happy about touching the goop inside her pumpkin either, but she didn't complain as much about it as Gwen did. After a minute or two, she really got into it.
I had to help Georgia, and even she wasn't too sure about touching the pumpking goop, but she really got into it and had a lot of fun.
Right before dinner we made some Halloween sugar cookies. We had a lot of fun, even when the girls tried to eat the flour we dusted on the table (and Georgia tried to eat the cookie dough). We cooked the cookies while we ate so that they would be cool and ready to decorate after carving our pumpkins.
When the time came to decorate the cookies, the girls were so excited. They iced and decorated pumpkins, frankenstein, skeletons, bats, spiders, and the word Boo. Lots of sprinkles made it on the cookies...and lots on the floor.
When Monday finally came around, the girls were so excited to wear their Halloween shirts (even though they had already worn them a couple times throughout October) to school. Gwen and Grace both had Fall Festivals at schools, and Gracie even got to wear her costume to school (Gwen wore hers on Friday). They couldn't wait to go trick or treating.
So I started asking the girls back in September what they wanted to be for Halloween. I swore last year that I wasn't going to make their costumes this year because it was so much work and so stressful, but I didn't have much of a choice. Gwen was the first one to come up with her costume. She wanted to be Ariel from The Little Mermaid, but not the mermaid version. She wanted to be human Ariel, wearing the pink dress that Ariel wears to dinner with Prince Eric.
So I searched and searched for something to make this dress out of, and finally found something at Goodwill about 2 weeks before Halloween. I found a pair of girls size 16 capris, and with a little fabric, a woman's slip, and some ribbon, her dress turned out pretty good. I made a quick tutu to go under the dress and poof it out, but it bunched up and looked funny. I also made a hair clip similar to the one Ariel wears in her hair with that dress out of the same ribbon on the dress and pearl-like buttons. It really did turn out pretty good, and Gwen loved it, which is all that mattered.
When Gwen decided to be a princess, Gracie decided she wanted to be a princess too. She decided that she wanted to be Belle from Beauty and the Beast. I figured if I was going to make Gwen's dress, I might as well make her dress as well.
So I went searching at Goodwill and found a pair of women's size 4 capris and with some fabric and buttons, her dress came out pretty good as well. I also made a scrunchy out of some of the yellow satin that her dress sashes are made out of to look like the hair crown Belle has around her bun when wearing the yellow dress. Gracie loved her dress as well.
Georgia is absolutely obsessed with the movie Tangled. Whenever she sees anything from the movie, she spazes out. It is her favorite movie to watch, and she wants to watch it all-the-time! So it wasn't much of a shock when she said she wanted to be Rapunzel.
I made Georgia's dress too. One of the main reasons I decided to make their dresses was that most of the Princess dresses I found online and at stores were at least $30, and I just wasn't willing to pay that much for a Halloween costume, let alone triple that price. To make the dresses from scratch was going to be pretty expensive too-over $50. Which is why I once again went searching at Goodwill and found a woman's size 20 purple skirt, which ended up being perfect (except for a little long, which I fixed) for Georgia's skirt. With some lace fabric, and ribbon, the skirt came out really cute (even though the skirt looks blue in the photo and the lace looks yellow-I swear it isn't like that, it was just the lighting in the room). I had to make the bodice from scratch, but it wasn't that big of a deal. When I had been thinking about making the dress from scratch, I bought the pattern for the Rapunzel dress, and in there were instructions on how to make this really cute Rapunzel hair. Georgia loved it-she bugged me all day long to wear her dress and hair.
The girls had a blast trick or treating and we had such a fun Halloween together. Gwen already told me that she wants to be a pink flamingo next year....hahahahaha....not happening, but we are looking forward to making new memories and having more fun together. What pretty pretty princesses I have!!
