To kick off the Halloween season, Sarah signed up for window painting this year and painted a lovely scene on the window of our hairstylist, Gisele.

On 10/26 Larchmont held the annual Ragamuffin Parade, here’s Sarah in her black cat costume with her friend, an orange cat.

The 5th graders at Chatsworth have an annual pumpkin decorating contest where the assignment is to decorate a pumpkin like your favorite literary character. Sarah said she has been hoping for years to make a dragon pumpkin from Wings of Fire, so we made it a reality! Out of a pumpkin, cardboard, and lots of masking tape. I especially loved Sarah’s idea to make horns out of pencils.

And here’s the finished project! For those who are WoF fans, it’s Qibli from the 10th book in the series. She won first place in her class!

That week the kids also carved their pumpkins.

And then on Halloween day Sarah walked in her last EVER Halloween parade at Chatsworth (sad) and then went trick or treating with friends.

Blaine decided to stay home to give out candy this year, and did an excellent job. Here’s one pic from the evening of a standout house we went to that had a full on Lord of the Rings theme, with a screen showing the eye of Sauron and everyone in full costumes. So cool.

After Halloween we booked tickets to see the Great Jack-o-lantern Blaze at the Van Cortlandt Manor. I’ve been meaning to go for years but always put it off since you have to buy tix in advance. This year we had plans to drive all the way to Ardsley to get the “Flumist” vaccine which is a nasal delivery flu vaccine. The kids loved it, anything to avoid a shot. We also got a beer at Captain Lawrence, and then got to admire the pumpkin displays at the Blaze. A fun way to cap off the holiday!

Happy Halloween!