Although the Lone Star Girl's birthday quite overshadows it, we still enjoy Halloween quite a lot at our house. This year, we spent much less time decorating, playing in the pumpkin patch, baking and doing crafts than I like, but things have been crazy and we just have to deal with the year we have. The Lone Star Baby did get to have some fun coloring on little mini-pumpkins and on little wooden pumpkins and making jack-o-lantern refrigerator magnets out of craft foam, so all was not lost:)
The Lone Star Baby had a multicultural parade at her school on Halloween and Lone Star Pa was able to take off of work and go. They had to dress up as real cultural icons. We sent the Lone Star Baby as Juliette Gordon Lowe, founder of the Girl Scouts, who shares her sister's birthday. For trick-or-treating, the Lone Star Baby wore her Spider-Man (she doesn't like my insistence that it is Spider-Girl) pants and hoodie again and carried her Spider-Man candy bucket. The Lone Star Girl made her own Star Fleet uniform, complete with aluminum foil-fashioned communicator and pips, and had me paint her with trill spots so she could go as Jadzia Dax. Yes; she's eleven. Our neighborhood kids go trick-or-treating together and it is always very nice. This was the first year that the Lone Star Baby went along and she quite enjoyed it. She was very intense about it, unlike her sister who just wants to go to a few houses and be done. You could tell that the Lone Star Baby would have happily kept trick-or-treating forever. It was a very nice night.
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