Halloween preparations (update 2 of 3)

Back in Rhode Island, we returned to routine.  One day, Madeline asked a series of interesting questions peppered with a few observations:

• What if everything could sing?
• Like trees -- what would they sing about?
• The sun?  
• The rain?
• And what if trees had legs?
• What if everything had legs?
• Then our house could get up and wander away!
• And it could play basketball!
• What if our house had a face?
• And it could talk?
• I think it would talk to an old garbage truck.

Madeline is quite the conversationalist these days.

Over the course of the week, we worked on Oliver's Halloween costume.  He and Madeline performed the important task of gluing mushrooms and olives to the pizza.

On Halloween, we carved pumpkins.

Oliver did a pumpkin-carving dance.

And he admired the resulting jack-o-lanterns.

Madeline drew what she wanted her jack-o-lantern to look like; I tried to oblige her.

While Oliver napped, we finished Madeline's costume.

We just had time before the festivities commenced to take a quick wagon ride to the post office and the library.

Then we got the jack-o-lanterns ready to set out on the front steps.

(The little pumpkin is one we grew ourselves, in our yard!)

And finally the hour arrived for trick-or-treating ...