Happy Halloween

After a few last minute costume changes and last minute pumpkin carving we managed to have a fun Halloween night.   Miss Jane couldn't decide on a costume.  We went to the Halloween store, to Target, we looked online.  She decided on Miss America. Pretty easy right?  Pretty Dress - Check.  Tiara - Check.  Sash - In progress.  When the temperature looked like it was only going to be in the 40's, that costume didn't seem all that inviting to her.  She decided on a Minnesota Viking instead.  Here she is with our neighbor:

And with her Trick Or Treating Partner:

B, on the other hand, knew what he wanted to be right away.  Of  course when he would tell people, many of them would look at him with a puzzled look, trying to figure out who it was.  Initially they would think it was a sports figure, which would make sense for a 9 year old boy.  But this is not any 9 year old boy.  This is the 9 year old boy who loves watching the weather channel.  Who is saving his money for a "tour" of the National Weather Service.  Who had to be the star of "Cantore Stories" for Halloween:

B as Jim Cantore

He was unwilling to shave his head, so we had to go with the bald cap.  Under the hat it doesn't look so bad:

I think part of the fascination with Jim Cantore is his remarkable resemblance to a certain favorite teacher of his:

Mr. D

Jim Cantore

Who knows?  Whatever the case may be, he was able to wear a warm jacket as part of his costume, so that was good thing.  And he had fun. 

Unless you stopped by our house between 3 pm on Halloween and 7 am the next day, you would not have known that we had pumpkins.  We were gone pretty much all weekend, and so when my friend (who also didn't have her pumpkins) called me at about 2 PM on Halloween and said there were no more pumpkins to be found around town, and she discovered some at a grocery store on her way home from work, and did I want her to pick me up a couple...I jumped on the opportunity.  Boy, nice run-on sentence, sorry.  So we rapidly carved our pumpkins when the kids got home from school, just in time to plop them on the front steps before the first Trick or Treaters arrived.  My friends' son did not want to carve his, so Gwen and I did our handiwork on one instead:

And then there is B's pumpkin that he carved all on his own:

And of course Miss Jane's smiley pumpkin:

And finally, the teenage boy's pumpkin in honor of his favorite movie, "Braveheart" and Mel Gibson:

See the resemblance?