I guess we had a pretty good Halloween this year. I say that because Wesley has told me no fewer than three times tonight how much fun he had yesterday. He’s also mentioned that it was “a great day”. And asked at least twice how much longer until next Halloween.
Pumpkin Patch
Our Halloween started with our first trip to the pumpkin patch. That’s right, there were two. Amber the kids and I went to Craven Farm in Snohomish. It is a nice place with lots of things to do: pick your own pumpkins, a corn maze, and kettle corn. Not exactly cheap, though. On the way there we saw a farm with some cows which happened to be eating about 40 pumpkins. At the Craven Farm rates you could have bought a used car for what those pumpkins cost. We were able to save money by enforcing a rule I remember from my childhood: If you can’t carry it, you can’t get it.
A week later, Wesley’s Preschool class was back in Snohomish for a pumpkin patch field trip. This time they were at The Farm at Swan’s Trail. Since this is preschool each kid had their parent or guardian drive them to the pumpkin patch. That meant that since Amber was going, Jillian go to go, too. Both kids picked out another pumpkin. They also go to go on a hay ride out to the field, go through a hay maze and pet some animals.
Pumpkin Carving
Before we could carve our pumpkins we gave them a bath in our wading pool. The kids really liked it. And we learned that pumpkins float. Once the pumpkins were all clean the kids used their boots to drain the water out of the pool.
Inside we carved the pumpkins on the dining room table. Jillian wanted a happy face and Wesley drew and partially carved his own scary face. Amber made a smiley face with scary teeth and I made the pumpkin on a pumpkin. Once the Jack-O-Lanterns were lit all the kids wanted to do was blow them out, immediately. I had to relight them after they went to sleep.
Trick-or-Treating
We went trick-or-treating up in Sedro-Woolley with Corey and Aidan. Their neighborhood is apparently the place to go in the area. There were car loads of kids being dropped off all night long. After only about an hour of walking the kids scored nearly 6 pounds of candy between them. We only hit about a third of the neighborhood. There were kids with so much candy they filled up entire pillow cases. It was really busy, but lots of fun with so many little kids running around.
Jillian the Duck:
Wesley the Penguin:
