I quite like Halloween. Yes, I think there’s too much crap stuff in the shops, but on the whole I like it. We dress up in costumes, we call on people we know and they give the kids sweets. It’s not ‘trick or treat’ exactly. It’s more just chatting to people. Some of whom don’t get to see the kids close up any other time during the year. They are always very pleased to admire the kids’ costumes and how much they’ve all grown.
For us, it’s more sociable than scary.
This photo was taken on our very first Halloween in our house, the first time my boys had ever dressed up for Halloween or been trick or treating. They were 4 and only just 2. They’re pictured here with our good friends who are moving away. My younger son is the little pumpkin and my eldest is randomly dressed as C3-PO (I think I’ve got that right, I neither know nor care about Star Wars).
And my daughter? She was just a 20 week bump. It was another two years before she donned the little pumpkin herself.
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October 30, 2013
So cute. I love the pumpkin outfit in particular and the matching skeleton outfits 🙂
October 30, 2013
Thanks very much. It’s gorgeous, isn’t it? I can’t believe the kids were ever small enough to fit into that!
October 30, 2013
Such cute pics – I love Halloween parties
October 30, 2013
very cute photos
October 30, 2013
Great photos, I love their outfits!
October 30, 2013
I love the fact for you guys its about spending time together and getting out to meet people you know xx
October 30, 2013
Love the skeletons and the pumpkin – adorable 🙂
October 30, 2013
So sweet! We dressed up 4yo in a pumpkin outfit very similar to the one your LO is wearing when she was the same sort of age 🙂 #BlogLoveDay
October 30, 2013
Lovely costumes! This year I have a Scooby Doo and a skeleton.
October 30, 2013
The pumpkin is just so cute! I’m like you, I’m not keen on the tat in the shops, but Halloween is starting to grow on me…. xx
October 30, 2013
Thanks very much, ladies 🙂
We’ve never been to a Halloween party, Louise! But we still enjoy Halloween.
Thanks, Jaime – reading your post I thought my Halloween is the sort of Halloween you’d like to see yourself.
October 31, 2013
Brilliant Sarah – love that photo, just superb! POD has gone to nursery today dressed as a devil and we’re having a dinner tonight. Did some craft too – try not to laugh at it!
October 31, 2013
Great picture! My daughter was dressed up as a little pumpkin last year!
November 1, 2013
Thanks very much, ladies! Little pumpkins are the best, Helpful Mum! I’m going to get this out and wash it for my niece for next year!
Charly – your craft was fab. Really impressed!