We celebrated my mom's birthday a week before Halloween by carving pumpkins as a family. In Halle's words, "that is totally asgusting Daddy."
It took the longest time before she would reach inside the pumpkin to even touch it. But she was finally brave enough to try it. My mom mentioned that her face was reminscent of a time when my dad showed me how to clean a fish. I think I much prefer pumpkin guts.
And after dinner and pumpkins, the girls ran downstairs to play dress up as usual. Halle found this wig that my sisters and I played with when we were kids. 
