Baby's First Halloween, or, an excuse for pumpkin hats

Hello Dear Readers,


Last weekend Chris and I took a trip up to Chez Brooke-Becker in Cambridge to visit my good friend Molly from graduate school.  I made a pumpkin hat for Katelyn and it was pretty much the cutest thing you ever saw, and we got a number of compliments on it from strangers.

She even wore it to the pumpkin patch, naturally, where we picked some pumpkins for carving and snacking on seeds. Molly made a cute, sorry, scary face out of the word BOO (left) and George made this fantastic screwball eyed beauty (right).

Chris and I tag teamed a Jack Skellington look alike (center), who hopefully spooked some kids last night.  We weren't home on Monday evening so we didn't get any trick or treaters, but I did see quite a few around coming back from the gym, lots of skeletons and witches, very traditional here.

I also got worms from Molly for my compost bin who will hopefully keep it going though the fall, though we are having a strangely warm November.  I had plenty of room to bring stuff back because I brought a bunch of stuff to share with them, including the baby skirt I made a while ago.  She's still a bit small for it, but I have no fears she'll grow into it quickly.  She also really loved the baby monkey, especially the red mouth, that one goes on the top of my list for baby presents in the future now.

All in all we had a fantastic trip, looking forward to going back in a few months for George's birthday if everything goes according to plan.

Cheers!