Last night we attended our friends' annual fall/halloween party. We all had a great time. The kids picked out their pumpkins for carving, first thing.
The carving became a family effort since both the kids picked out complicated patterns to carve. And of course they did not want to pull the guts out of the pumpkins.
After their carvings efforts, it was on to more fun. Riley had her face painted. They both bobbed for apples and got soaked in the process, but they did not mind a bit. In fact I think that if I want to get my kids to eat apples I need to place a large tub of water on the floor and fill it with apples. Not only did they eat the apples they bobbed for (without complaining about the skin still being on), but they also went back for seconds and ate those apples too.
Then they participated in the donut on a string eating contest, no hands allowed. There was a band for dancing, but Riley chose not to participate in the hokey pokey or chicken dance. When I asked her why she said, "because I don't want to look ridiculous." I told her that she was not going to look ridiculous (what did she think of me out there hokey pokeying?) that it was called having fun. She looked at me very seriously and said "mom, I'm 8 I don't chicken dance". After that they just had fun running around and being kids.
The carving became a family effort since both the kids picked out complicated patterns to carve. And of course they did not want to pull the guts out of the pumpkins.
After their carvings efforts, it was on to more fun. Riley had her face painted. They both bobbed for apples and got soaked in the process, but they did not mind a bit. In fact I think that if I want to get my kids to eat apples I need to place a large tub of water on the floor and fill it with apples. Not only did they eat the apples they bobbed for (without complaining about the skin still being on), but they also went back for seconds and ate those apples too.
Then they participated in the donut on a string eating contest, no hands allowed. There was a band for dancing, but Riley chose not to participate in the hokey pokey or chicken dance. When I asked her why she said, "because I don't want to look ridiculous." I told her that she was not going to look ridiculous (what did she think of me out there hokey pokeying?) that it was called having fun. She looked at me very seriously and said "mom, I'm 8 I don't chicken dance". After that they just had fun running around and being kids.
