Halloween 2014

This week has been busy, busy, busy with getting ready for Halloween. (A lot of other not so fun things happened too, which you can read about on Mark's blog.) Many moons ago we asked Emma what she wanted to be for Halloween. We found pictures to help explain what Halloween costumes are, and after a few minutes of thinking, she announced that she was going to be a pumpkin. Over the course of the fall she had gone back and forth between a pumpkin-moose, a moose, and a pumpkin, but in the end she remained a pumpkin.

We thought Kaylee was going to be a little kitty. But, we found a little baby animal body suit at Goodwill and thought she could be a pretty cute little Totoro instead. I don't know what animal the costume was originally suppose to be, as anything that could tell me what it was, was missing.

So the week was spent frantically crocheting hats, taking them apart, and crocheting them again. Its funny how hats can look big enough at night, and then be too small in the morning.

We were encouraged to dress up for Halloween at work. Every year the Youth department puts on a Halloween parade, touring the library and stopping at each department for trick-or-treating. I'd been debating about what I was going to be, or if I had time to put a costume together at all. But Thursday night I found myself with a couple of extra hours (well, it was before midnight anyway) so I pulled out some old fabric and whipped out a simple cape to go with my elf ears. I think everyone looked pretty good.