We had a really fun halloween this year. Brad and I both got lucky and neither of us had to work. We started our Halloween festivities out with carving pumpkins a couple of days before Halloween. Jacob wasn't all that interested at first, but once I put his pumpkin on the ground and gave him a spoon and let him play with the insides of the pumpkins is when the real fun began for him. He didn't understand that we were trying to take the seeds and stuff out, it was much more fun to put them back in. Brad and I both tried to follow one of the patterns that came with the pumpkin carving set. Don't recommend doing those, they are way too time consuming, the carving tools on the other hand were awesome, especially the scoop.
So the plan for Jacob's halloween costume this year was to find a cow costume. The reason being that he LOVES cows. He sees a horse and thinks it's a cow, he sees a sheep and calls it a cow. Now of course we try and correct him, but he just really likes cows. He is really cute when he tries to moo. Anyway, you would think that a cow costume would be easy to find for a toddler, well we were wrong. The only cow costume I ever found for him was $40 and I wasn't prepared to pay that much for a costume. So at sort of last minute the Sunday before Halloween my sister suggested to do a mummy costume, it would be easy to just wrap him up in gauze and send him on his way. So I went looking for gauze the next day, by the time I got enough gauze to wrap him in, I might as well have bought the cow costume. So I went home to think about this some more. I realized I had an old sheet that was tan/cream color and I could just rip that into strips and wrap him in it. The next problem was that he would NOT hold still long enough to let me wrap him in it. So yet again back to thinking about this some more, by this time it is Wednesday and I was supposed to be working both Thursday and Friday, so I had to get this done that day, cause I wouldn't have time for it later on. I went back to the stores in a desperate attempt to find any costume that would work for him and wasn't over $15. But there was still nothing. I finally decided to search on the internet to see what I could find as far as instructions on how to make a mummy costume and found an awesome youtube video that had step-by-step instructions, but I had to sew each of the strips onto an old pair of pants and a t-shirt, so after a late night of sewing and an early morning of sewing I was finally able to get it done. Moral of the story is....I really don't know. But Jake was happy, Daddy was happy, and I eventually got over the sore neck and shoulders from sitting at the sewing machine for so long. I think that was the first time that my messy sewing actually ended making the project turn out better :)
It didn't take Jake very long to figure out that if he says trick-or-treat that he will get some candy in his little bucket. He didn't want to stop trick-or-treating. But once we gave him a piece of candy he didn't mind too much that it was time to come inside.
Jacob held on tight to his candy bucket, he thought we were going to try and take it away.
His favorite candy.....the dumdum sucker. He loved it!
Jacob got up this morning and looked out of the front window and saw the Jack-o-lanterns, and said 'trick-or-treat" and ran to the door. He wanted to do it all over again today. Sorry Jake, you are going to need atleast a year to recover from all of that sugar :)
We had a very fun Halloween this year and having Jacob with us at this age is what made it as fun as it was. Kids always make things funner!
