Well, here we were at 3:00 on Halloween eve painting a white-ish, 4T WalMart leisure suit with Zebra stripes. Not our best parenting moment, but a lot of fun by the end and Olivia was pleased. Honestly, I didn't think she was serious about the whole zebra thing. With all the princess dress up around here...but every time I bated her with the question the answer was always the same...a zebra. Thank you, Joseph, for not caring.
Our house was so trashed from neglect. Please don't blow up this picture and see the mess in the kitchen. We had sweet friends come over to spend the evening with us (Justin and Ms. Minna) and they were so great to just start cleaning and cooking as soon as we got home from trick or treating.
The ears didn't last long (about 20 seconds), but they were cute.
We walked up to Monkey C Media first. This is a local design house - they do book covers among other photography. They were taking pics of kids for free. You can go go
monkeycmedia.smugmug.com to see the kids. Olivia's pic is on the homepage right now. They are a neat couple - about our age, no kids. She is a part of this local business owners group that I hope to tell you about soon. Take a look at their People of South Park photo gallery too - those are our people - neighborhood business owners, trash collectors, UPS driver, coffee shop barista, etc.
We stopped over at a neighbor's house for snacks (August, he is 5) and then hit our street. We went to about 10 houses and the kids willingly headed back up our side walk. That was enough.
Mr. Frank and Ms. Irma next door. Mr. Frank refuses to answer the door for trick or treaters. Our kids were even yelling 'hello' to him in front of his t.v. - and he yelled hello back...and then yelled for Irma. We really like them.
And then we spent the next hour doing this. They LOVED handing out the candy. Every time a scary costume came up, I swallowed hard (still not convinced participating in Halloween with a 2 and 4 year old is the wisest thing) - but Joseph just yelled at them "You not scawee!" That horrible long white face with the hollow eyes and "o" mouth and black cape came up (for about the 20th time...we had about 250 kids come to the door) and Joseph said, "What is that?" and the kid, love him, threw back his mask and said, "Just a kid!" He trotted off and Joseph turned to me in surprise and said, "A pingwan!" (translated: penguin) Love him too.
We ate frozen pizzas, drank Temecula wine, and ate a yummy homemade sweet potato pie that Ms. Minna made ("a redneck halloween?"). All in front of a toasty fire. All in all a good evening. I'll see you again next year this time with the Halloween discussion...while I have had a lot of good feedback, I'm still not feeling a confident, free conscience.
Our house was so trashed from neglect. Please don't blow up this picture and see the mess in the kitchen. We had sweet friends come over to spend the evening with us (Justin and Ms. Minna) and they were so great to just start cleaning and cooking as soon as we got home from trick or treating.
The ears didn't last long (about 20 seconds), but they were cute.
We walked up to Monkey C Media first. This is a local design house - they do book covers among other photography. They were taking pics of kids for free. You can go go monkeycmedia.smugmug.com to see the kids. Olivia's pic is on the homepage right now. They are a neat couple - about our age, no kids. She is a part of this local business owners group that I hope to tell you about soon. Take a look at their People of South Park photo gallery too - those are our people - neighborhood business owners, trash collectors, UPS driver, coffee shop barista, etc.
We stopped over at a neighbor's house for snacks (August, he is 5) and then hit our street. We went to about 10 houses and the kids willingly headed back up our side walk. That was enough.
Mr. Frank and Ms. Irma next door. Mr. Frank refuses to answer the door for trick or treaters. Our kids were even yelling 'hello' to him in front of his t.v. - and he yelled hello back...and then yelled for Irma. We really like them.
And then we spent the next hour doing this. They LOVED handing out the candy. Every time a scary costume came up, I swallowed hard (still not convinced participating in Halloween with a 2 and 4 year old is the wisest thing) - but Joseph just yelled at them "You not scawee!" That horrible long white face with the hollow eyes and "o" mouth and black cape came up (for about the 20th time...we had about 250 kids come to the door) and Joseph said, "What is that?" and the kid, love him, threw back his mask and said, "Just a kid!" He trotted off and Joseph turned to me in surprise and said, "A pingwan!" (translated: penguin) Love him too.
We ate frozen pizzas, drank Temecula wine, and ate a yummy homemade sweet potato pie that Ms. Minna made ("a redneck halloween?"). All in front of a toasty fire. All in all a good evening. I'll see you again next year this time with the Halloween discussion...while I have had a lot of good feedback, I'm still not feeling a confident, free conscience.
6 comments:
Nice Job! On the whole evening, but especially the zebra. Could you work in 4 more costumes next year if we get our orders in by, say, the 28th?
nope, I did it in photoshop elements. If you have any pictures you want it done to, in any particular colors I could do it for you if you don't have elements- just let me know!
Good job on the Zebra. It would be hard not to have her look like a prisoner. All that time at the zoo has paid off.
YOu are so right, MOm. At one point it was headed in that direction, but I found some key elements from a picture to copy and it worked.
We miss you guys! Your kiddos looked so cute in their costumes!
Love,
Lindsey and Will
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