Catch Up: Halloween

December 27, 2016 9:26 am

Heather loves The Magic School Bus and had been asking to be Ms. Frizzle for Halloween for months.  Luckily Grandma was willing to take a crack at making her a costume.  And it came out amazing!  Thanks, Mom!

Heather wanted to look like Ms. Frizzle in her favorite episode, the haunted house episode about sound.  Here is the source material:

And here’s the result:

Corinne got to make her Halloween-costume debut in the blanket costume Jess made when Heather was smaller.  I like this pictures because Corinne is so excited she’s vibrating (since she’s blurry, but Heather’s not).

Heather was a little hesitant about it at first, but she loved it.  And her new “Liz” is one of her core-group stuffed animals now.  Liz is always next to her in bed and is always taken out to the family room every morning.

The above pictures were taken a couple of days before Halloween.  Here’s a day-of picture.  Heather’s face paint was from the Halloween party they had at school.

I got my ghosties up again and bought some batteries to light them up properly with LEDs.  Still needs some work, but they’re getting better:

This was Corinne’s first experience trick-or-treating.  She caught on pretty quickly.  As soon as a door would open she would try to climb inside and reach for any candy she could see.  We did 5 or 6 houses with her and then dropped her off back at home while Heather and I did some more.

We got most of the street trick-or-treated before it started sprinkling.  This caused most people to head inside, even though it stopped before we made it back home.  But we were a bit soggy and Heather was worn out so we called it a night.

Heather’s Dance Costume

May 25, 2016 2:54 pm

Heather missed picture day for her dance class due to our family’s bout with hand-foot-and-mouth disease.

Today was a dress rehearsal, so she got all dolled up again.  So I set up my equipment to try and get at least one or two decent pictures of her in her costume.  Our kitchen, unfortunately, is just not quite large enough for me to use my 50mm lens effectively, but I got some okay pictures:

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Corinne wanted to be part of the excitement as well.  She looks like an anime character.

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One is such a fun age!

April 9, 2016 12:53 pm

This is from a couple weeks ago:

I prompted her to get it on video, but Corinne started doing this spontaneously. I looked up and she was burying her face in her onesie, then peeking up to see if I was looking. Peek-a-boo is her favorite, but I’ve always done the covering before, so this was awesome. And so adorable!

Here’s a link you can right-click and download if watching it in your browser doesn’t work: 2016-03-28_17-04-3 – Corinne Peek-a-boo