Halloween 2014 Spooktacular
Friday 31 October 2014 at 12:00 am.
Used tags: alya, around_the_house, rafiq, work_excursion
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So since dressing up in costumes is one of Yaya's favorite things to do, Halloween is something she has been looking forward to for a while. Despite the non-candy-eating child that she is, she loves to go trick or treating and we often play "trick-or-treat" games at home. So here are our Halloween photos!
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This entry is organized into three sections:
1. Trying out costumes
2. Let's carve a pumpkin!
3. Trick or treat!
So we begin with trying out costumes. The plan was to have Adik wear Yaya's old Tiny Pteranodon costume from 2011. Yaya wanted to be a witch. So we are trying the costumes:
So then Adik said enough and wanted out of the costume. So our fallback plan: let's try last year's lion costume.
We decided to bring both costumes and see which one Adik would be in the mood for when we went trick or treating in Tampa (we would be there for Halloween). Next section, pumpkin carving. I had purchased these special pumpkin carving tools, smaller than our gigantic carving knife and supposed to be safer around little children. It came attached to a pumpkin carving booklet filled with stencils. So Yaya chose one for us to work with. Papa is the resident pumpkin carving expert.
After the pumpkin is emptied out, we put the stencil on the pumpkin and Papa starts carving (look at the tiny little pumpkin carving thingy).
The stencil went all soft and funky and we thought there has to be another way. Time for Plan B. But Vin got the face carved out.
And that was our jack-o-lantern adventure this year! Next it is time to go trick or treating. Luckily, we were in Tampa where the weather was warm and clear. At home, it looked to be a cold and rainy Halloween. We went to one of my colleague's neighborhoods for the trick or treat and wow, did it pay off! They had lots of ghostly decorations out and people were hanging out outside. Sadly, Adik refused to put on any costume. He did not want to be a pteranodon, nor did he want to be a lion. In a supreme show of confidence, he said "I just want to be Adik. I just want to be a boy". So, he went as he was.
Here are some of the decorations that I managed to photograph. I did not get a good photo of a black cat about the size of a house on somebody's yard though. Sadness.
That last house was pretty cool - nobody was home but they had placed the candy in buckets outside surrounded by ghosties and ghouls that activated and made scary noises when we approached. Both kids were quite scared but they had good proper chocolate there. Truth be told, I was a little scared too. 
And then it was time to pack it up (Yaya was not happy about leaving not finished trick or treating yet) and go back to the hotel. There was some whining, begging, maybe even a few tears, but it was dark and time to go.
And that is it! Happy Halloween y'alls!
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