Many Faces

Happy Halloween, all! We have been creating all kinds of faces around here lately.

 

The Saturday before we left for California, Issa and I participated in our town's Handmade Parade. Once a year, the art council encourages groups and residents to create costumes in a Mardi Gras style parade. Our neighbor organized a group of girls to be butterfly fairies, and since everyone has to be costumed, I was their flower:

 Issa did the decorating of the wings all by herself. They were very fancy.

Evan and Daddy were proud supporters. Apparently, Evan spent much of the parade like this:

Can you blame him with costumes like this:

 Here was our motley group in comparison:

 One of the many reasons I love our town: the crowd, which packed the streets, cheered just as loudly for our little group as they did for the more intricate adult costumes. It wasn't a competition. It truly was about celebrating the arts and coming together as a community. Makes my heart happy.

When we got home, we decided it was time to carve our pumpkins. The annual Daddy scooping, crazy face picture:

 Evan's Halloween is all about Spiderman, so I managed to carve him a Spiderman pumpkin:

 And since every Spiderman needs a bad guy, my pumpkin became the bad guy:

 I just love Evan's bad guy face, too.

Issa decided to make a girl pumpkin, and she got to do her own carving this year:

 It's hard work, I tell you.

The final results:

That brings us to today. Although today is Halloween, Issa's school is celebrating favorite book character day. If your costume is a book character, you can wear it. If it is not, you can not. Are you hearing the annoyance in my tone? Let's just let the kids wear their costumes and roll on.

So...Issa is Spider Girl this year, which is a whole graphic novel series. But...that's not her favorite character. Pinkalicious is her favorite:

Yes...her hair is pink today! We blushed her whole face and used chalk to tint her hair for the day. She was even more pink than usual. In fact, she was tickled pink with herself. (I had to go there.)

Tonight is trick-or-treat, and I am sure there will be plenty of non-pink cuteness to share tomorrow.