Prepping for Halloween involves carving pumpkins and having a party at school.  My good friend Amy, and her son Andrew, came over to carve pumpkins with us.  I’m very old school when it comes to carving.  Give me a pumpkin and a knife and I just start cutting.  No tracing out shapes, just inspiration.  I’m attempting to pass this along to the boys.  I’m also a mom though, and thus I was not the one who handed carving knifes to our sons.   Guess who did that?  With the proper supervision though, they did just fine.   What do you think of their masterpieces?

Well, right before Halloween, Nicky decided that he did not want to be a pirate.  He wanted to be a ghost.  So, what do ghosts do best?  They walk through walls.  In true ghost fashion, Nicholas threw a blanket over his head and tried to walk through a wall.  And that is how he got a black eye.

Who needs make-up when you’ve got the real thing?  I thought the black eye lended itself very well to being a pirate.  Channeling my inner car salesman persona, I asked Nicholas what he thought about being a Ghost Pirate for Halloween.  We’d already purchased the Captain Hook costume and I couldn’t take it back.  We were going to stick to the Peter Pan theme, gosh darn it.  He was OK with the idea.  Yes!

Also included are a few pictures from the party they had at school, Dexter and Nicholas cheesing it up for a fake camera, and Dexter and Nicholas just being themselves.  Enjoy.