
While going thru the Trick-Or-Treat line at the White House, at one point I said Maliah's name. To which President Obama said "Ah, another Malia!" and made a special effort to go to her and reached out his hand... at which point Maliah lifted up her pumpkin bucket to his hand. Which I think is an expected response from a 2.5 year old on Halloween, to an out-stretched adult's hand.;)
By the time we got home it was just getting dark and we made it to a few houses before the rain started. But then it was time for me to branch off to pick up Granny Jo (who was coming into town in prep for Ella's arrival which was supposed to be around 11-12-13). We got back from the airport in time for both the kids to go around, in the drizzle, with Granny Jo to a few houses. Then Magnus had fun giving out candy to the bigger kids that came to the house at the end of the night. And Magnus even started to ration out the candy at the end as we started to get low on candy. It was quite impressive how judicious he got.
White House Halloween candy |
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White House Halloween Invite |
The small pumpkins, gourds, that we did have, Granny Jo made into pumpkins soup several days after Halloween when we were going to throw the pumpkins out. The pumpkins had been sitting out on the front porch and had already been nibbled on a bit by the squirrels. At dinner Magnus asked, in a very eager and excited voice, if the pumpkin soup came from the pumpkins. I answered 'yes,' and thought that he was going to be impressed that his pumpkins were now food. I was WRONG. Magnus cried and said that we wanted to carve the pumpkins. Oops, didn't read that conversation that right way. Nonetheless he got over it, but he didn't eat any of the soup.
So cute! and how awesome is this record of your kids' activities which they'll be able to enjoy when they're older. What an awesome mom you are, DebORah ♥
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