Halloween Themed Tuesday

We came home from the Villa on Monday October 28 in the afternoon. We wanted to make sure to be home for the entire day on Tuesday since that is Alex's day off. Tuesdays have become our laundry/grocery shopping/errand running day with Daddy. While we were gone for the weekend, Alex bought pumpkins, mums, and Halloween themed cupcake stuff so that we could spend Tuesday getting ready for Halloween.

While Sawyer took his nap that morning, Alex and Charlotte started on the cupcakes. She said that she really wanted the cupcakes to be pink (even though Alex was trying to remind her that Halloween is orange themed :) ).

Pouring the cupcakes herself.

Note Daddy's hand trying to snatch it from her before she could get a lick in :)

They fill the cupcake tins and let the cupcakes bake. While they bakes, they started gutting one of the pumpkins. Charlotte LOVED it.

She was so excited about it.

Then they washed all of the seeds off and baked them in the oven.

Once the cupcakes were done, Charlotte decorated hers and ate it right away!

She was in LOVE with it.

Poor Sawyer missed all of the fun (he took an almost three hour nap.)

So after supper, he got to decorate his own cupcake.

He couldn't wait to get his hands on it.

Charlotte got to decorate another one.

Dig in, Buddy!

He loved it :)

She took her own sweet time decorating the cupcake (and she didn't really eat this one.)

Charlotte's second masterpiece of the day.

Yep. He liked it. So did his hair :)

Then we decided to carve/gut the next pumpkin. This is his first pumpkin experience.

Alex was trying to get him to reach inside the pumpkin and touch it. He chose to try to pick it up.

Alex finally got him to put his hand inside.

This was his reaction.

But once he tried it a few times, he LOVED it and dug right in.

 After the pumpkins were all gutted, the kids took good baths and went to sleep for the night.

Alex got to have his own fun once they were asleep.

The art major in him came out.

He was pretty proud of these :)

(And I am proud of them too! He did so good!)

It was a productive day off!!! We had homemade vegetable soup for supper. It was a great day.