The House of Helrings: Halloween 2012

This year we went trick or treating in our new Aliso Viejo Neighborhood. We went with our friends and their four year old son. The night was a little cooler than past Halloweens. We started out at 6:45 and were done by 8:00PM. Ava was a fairy princess and Charlotte a little giraffe. The night before we made Halloween cookies (not from scratch), carved the pumpkins, and roasted pumpkin seeds. We made the most of Halloween without getting into anything scary. Our kids get scared pretty easily. Most Disney movie villains are still too scary for Ava to watch, as well as Barbie movies, and even the Care Bare movies. The villains in the movies are really what scares her, so we always end up turning off the show. She is use to only watching a few favorite TV shows that have no villains. Why rush the movies? When the time comes she and her sister will enjoy the Disney movies and others. She did enjoy cracking up to Snoopy in It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. So, maybe will try to order the Thanksgiving version of Charlie Brown from Netflix next.

Halloween 2012

Halloween lunch was uncured hot dogs wrapped in crescent roll dough to make mummies!

Playing pin the nose on the pumpkin with our friend Liam.

Getting ready to go out and trick or treat.

Carving our pumpkins and getting the seeds out for roasting.

Ava initially was getting gooey with it and decided on her own to go grab some sandwich bags from the kitchen to use as gloves instead of her bare hands to pull out the pumpkin seeds.

Charlotte meanwhile was very busy decorating her "baby pumpkin" with glue and pompoms.

Our pumpkin seeds roasted at 325 degrees for 25 minutes with some olive oil and salt. Makes trying to clean the seeds all worth the effort! Yum!

Starting out trick or treating with Grandma and Daddy. I went too of course but there was no way I can actually be carrying the kids or be doing too much walking up and down steps and across lawns or any other obstacles in the dark. At 37 weeks pregnant and trick or treating I enjoyed watching my kids and going but tried to take it easy as well.