Halloween Celebrations 2011

Halloween Themed Play Group:
I hosted a Halloween themed art group which turned out pretty good. We made some owl cupcakes, mini peanut butter brownie cups and candy corn trail mix to snack on. Then for lunch each kid got to create their own pumpkin shaped pizza (I just rolled out the dough and cut them like a pumpkin then cooked them a little in the morning so they were ready to go during playgroup).

Once again, Kevin had a little buddy to play with. Truth be told he slept for a good portion of play group, but I was able to snap this pretty cute picture :).

Art Group Pumpkin Painting:
Nothing too fancy. Just painting the pumpkin with black and white paint.

Trick or Treating:
Halloween isn't very big here...this year was actually bigger than last year though. With that said, Trick or Treating isn't normal. So we were very excited when some friends invited us to go Trick or Treating at the Garrison (US Military place in Brussels). We ended up arriving at the same time as some other friends which worked out perfectly. Their kids were so sweet and held Kherington's hand as they went from one car to the next. When they had finished, Kherington plopped down in the middle of the road and starting eating (after stripping the main part of her cow costume off). Kevin on the other hand was only away for the first 5 minutes or so then slept through the rest of it.

Pumpkin Carving:
Better late than never right? We ended up carving pumpkins the day after Halloween. It is All Saint's Day in Belgium so Ryan didn't have to work. I had forgotten to get candle so we made do with a big birthday candle. We ended up lighting it in the bathroom so we could make it dark and show Kherington how cool it looked.