We woke up this morning and of course in our true Burch household tradition we made ghost pancakes for breakfast.
The kids look forward to this every year. I love Ave’s bed head, the kid seriously has the craziest hairdo's when she wakes up in the morning. Cracks us up. Look at Eden making her pancakes with those glasses on. She also wore them while she ate her breakfast. She is so cute.
Then it was off to Brenn’s graduation. After Brenn’s graduation we headed back home to get dressed for the trunk or treat. We had the usual chili cook off which is always delicious and Grandma and Grandpa met us there.
I love these pictures of GG holding Emma and snuggling.
GG held Emma while the rest of us went through the haunted house. Hunter and Eden loved it and Ave... well she liked it initially. We were halfway through when some kids started screaming for fun but it scared Avery and I spent the next five minutes trying to crawl through the cardboard maze dragging her as she clung to my cape and scarf practically choking me.
Crawling through a cardboard maze is tricky anyway let alone complicate it with packing a four year old child in an owl costume. Grandpa was crawling around in there with us laughing at the sight of me pulling Avery along on my cape trying to convince her to settle down. Finally we found the exit, calmness for Avery, oxygen for me. Hunter and Deke took another five plus minutes to come out as they had stayed inside and lapped around the maze for a bit.
Then it was on to fun games like throw wet sponges at the bishop which was the hit of the night and race to eat a powdered donut off of a string.
Mom and Eden looked great as Snow White and the wicked queen.
Hunter was of course in full character all night providing us with much comedic relief, he made such an awesome Harry Potter he seriously looked a lot like him.
Avery and Emma were adorable in their little owl costumes. I was really happy with the way they turned out.
It was so cute because a group of kids would go running by and Emma would move her arms up and down excitedly and her wings would flap just like a baby bird getting ready to take flight.
She loved her costume and wore it all night without a problem. It was so funny because everytime we would put it on her and show her herself in the mirror she would start cracking up, it was the cutest thing. This year was so fun for Deke and I to dress up with the kids.
It definitely beat last years nausea and throwing up as I finished my first trimester. Then we did the trunk or treating which is always fun. After trunk or treat we headed home to carve pumpkins.
Yeah we were a little behind the power curve this year. We let Hunter design, draw, clean out and carve his own pumpkin on his own this year.
He did an awesome job carving a vampire with only a little assistance from Dad. Avery would actually touch the seeds this year but got bored after two seconds so mom who had been chomping at the bit dug in and cleaned it out for her.
Seriously it is my favorite part, don’t care for the carving but love cleaning out the seeds. Slimy, stringy, awesome.
I made Emma put her hands inside the pumpkin and feel the seeds. She loved it and of course thought it was something to eat.
Papa grew her a little pumpkin in his garden which melted my heart and so I traced her hand on it and carved it out. The pinky looked a little funky because I missed a cut but it still is a sweet reminder of her tiny little handprint.
Avery decided she wanted a crown and stars carved into her pumpkin this year instead of a face so we did our best. Eden drew her own pumpkin face this year too. I love the little pointy teeth. She also cleaned her pumpkin seeds out this year without a problem and did quite a bit of carving as well.
Then we took them out on the back porch and lit them. They looked so cute. Emma was mesmerized by them, her eyes as wide as she could open them. Kicking her legs, moving her arms and smiling huge.
She would look at the pumpkins, then look at us smiling and then look back at them as if to say, “wow look at those things they are so pretty.” Even after the other kids were asleep mom and I spent another twenty minutes or so sitting on the porch with her letting her just stare at them.
I can only imagine her reaction to seeing a Christmas tree for the first time. I love all the firsts. First pumpkins, first costumes first jack o’lantern. So much fun. Then Mom, Deke and I all watched Hocus Pocus and crashed for the night. .
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