Our Halloween

Our Halloween was a quiet one this year. Normally we decorate our living room with ceiling decorations, spider webs and wall hangings but this year we just didn't feel like hunting through the attic finding all the boxes just for a day of use.

We didn't go trick or treating this year. It's far too cold out for the children to be walking around with thin costumes on so we stayed home and had a mini tea party.

The food

We had food that I renamed, sorry if this sounds disgusting.

Cheese wiggles/wotsits - fingers

french fries - worms

mini scotch eggs - eye balls

pizza - puke pizza

trifle - zombie brains

The trifle was a hit we had two which the children chose from one chocolate and one strawberry.

We also treated the children to candy apples which they gobbled up in no time.

The children with the candy apples

The children loved all the food and came back for second and thirds.

Darren gutted our pumpkin and I then carved it. It took me about 40 minutes to carve and wasn't as hard a job as I was imagining. The theme this year was Minecraft since we love it and rather than carving a Creeper which seemed to be what everyone carving a Minecraft pumpkin was doing I opted for tools/weapons and TNT.

Front : Pickaxe and sword

Back : TNT

With the flesh of the pumpkin we made a rather yummy pumpkin soup.

The children dressed up in costumes, except Archie he wasn't really that bothered.

Cerys the cheetah

Harvey the vampire

Jorja as Snow White

Gwen as Ariel

Kellan as Pooh Bear

Rory as Sleepy the Dwarf

And of course I couldn't leave out a Halloween nappy photo

Rory in our Fluffy Dreams Halloween nappy

An Update On Our Growing Veggies

So I thought it was time to do a little update on how everything we've planted is coming along.

The first things we planted have gone crazy and most were growing within days!

Cabbages

The cabbages, yes we don't know how these change or grow cabbages either but we can't wait to find out. They look strangely like cress and are very floppy.

Courgettes

The courgettes have done really well. All but one pot have grown and they've had no problems and will be needing to be planted outside soon.

Roma and Gardener's Delight Tomatoes

The Roma and Gardener's Delight tomatoes shot up quickly and have been growing almost like weeds since.

Our next batch of veggies to be planted

Pumpkin

This is our pumpkin pot and all the seeds seem to have grown and it's really gone crazy in the last few days as it was a little shoot at the beginning of the week. We'll have to keep these indoors for a little while longer to get them toughened up before going outside.

Tomato plant

This tomato plant was given to us free by our garden center and looked half dead and floppy but it's come to life since we've brought it home and looked after it.

Carrots

The carrots have slowly been growing it seems they aren't quite as eager as the tomatoes, courgettes and cabbages to get growing.

Peppers and herbs

The peppers and parsley have only just started sprouting. The Basil and Coriander went a little nuts and grew rather quickly.

We've also got a few more seeds in and planted a couple of things in the last week.

More seeds

We have marigolds to help ward off bugs, Runner Beans, cress and container seed disks for chilli's, tomatoes and strawberries.

Planting onions

We got the onions planted in window boxes and so far there are no signs of growth.

Planting runner beans

We planted two round tubs with runner beans so should have a lovely amount when ready for picking. Kellan  was watching us plant these so we thought we'd let him have a go only, as we thought, he went to eat the seed. We showed him where to put it though and he got there eventually so Kellan got to join in too.

Planting potatoes

We also planted the second lot of potatoes which Kellan found fascinating to watch. We've now run out of compost so we can't do much more for the garden until we get some more which we're hoping will be sometime this week.

There is no signs of life from the first potatoes we planted yet but they are quite a way down in the soil. We are still to plant the strawberries, container fruit seeds and cress for indoors but no doubt we'll get around to those soon.

I'm hoping the next update on our veggies will include planting tomatoes and courgettes outside and maybe some of the more recent things we've planted will be showing some signs of life too.