No costume this year for Vienne (or for none of us, for that matter) because every cute costume we found were WAY too big for her. Of the ones we did see, our favs were a lioness, tootsie roll and girl pirate. So...we bought her a 12 mos. old sock monkey costume in preparation for next year.
Danielle and I spent the early part of Halloween getting portrait photos taken of Vienne. Then we went shopping at Trader Joe's. We arrived back at the house around 2pm and after putting the groceries away, we began to decorate our front yard and porch.
We created a graveyard, complete with a skeleton erupting from the earth plus various body parts and bones scattered about. In the bush was our sinister bat friend, waiting to pounce. Up on the porch, we had lots of spider webs, a strobe light, dense fog, an animated painting, a pair of ghoulish creatures "hanging" out, a deadly rat, a giant spider, a bat flying overhead, lots of candles provided by our roommate, Courtney, and some spooky music and other haunted house sounds! We finished up around 7pm and anxiously awaiting the trick-er-treaters. Last year, no one - I repeat, no one - came a knockin' on our door, but this year, we were stoked to have about 10 brave kids make the trek up to our door. We could even hear a couple of them crying and freaking out on the porch. Parents can be so cruel right? haha
On the day after Halloween, Danielle went shopping for more Halloween props for next year and we got lots of cool stuff at 75% off the regular price! Halloween 2011 (wherever we may live then) will be awesome...check back then for video and pics.
Below, is a video of our decorations and Vienne's role in the whole adventure.
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NOTE: The sounds you hear on this video are the actual sounds emanating from a CD player hidden on the porch.
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