Halloween

Halloween

Halloween

trick or treat

 

and, then we had our official costume night. with a couple of snags of course. as we were getting ready after dinner, Chris called to me from the other room. "Polly, come look at this." So I did, specifically at the goop coming out of Brixton's eye. Yup, pink eye. So the friendly monster went with Papa to the ER to trick-or-treat for antibiotics and Unity and I went out. (Don't worry she promised to share her candy with him and he was the hit of the not-at-all-busy ER.)

 

 

 

                             Our street is too busy for trick or treating so we went to our friend Lena's house.
                             Lena is in Unity's class and also attends Meeting with us. She's a fairy and
                             her friend Ali is a crocodile.

                                   Dancing in the streetlights......

                              Then we went to see Reuben. He was the Titanic.

                                       Wait, you need more of that costume don't you? I thought so.         
         

                                     amazing, I know.

 

Then Unity and Reuben performed a little song and dance routine for us, that I like to call

"Burning off the sugar."

 

and now, to bed.

 

Happy Halloween.

a sneak peak...

 

Every so often we attempt to have a family movie night. This is harder than you might think because we have the following rules: 1. the movie must be something that adults can sit through without wanting to scream. (Sorry Dora, you're out.) 2. the movie must be something that kids can watch without the plot being too "scary". (This eliminates almost everything- including Cinderella, the life of a sea turtle, and Wallace and Gromit.) Mostly we have been without success. On Friday we tried to watch the Land Before Time which is about cute and cuddly dinosaurs. Also, a T-Rex. Yeah so that wasn't the best but we actually made it through two-thirds of the movie which is a record for us.

 

                                Cuddling up for the movie. They always get so excited by the idea of it.....


                  We went to a pumpking carving party on Saturday which is a neat way of getting the job done while also socializing with friends and neighbors, all of us up to our elbows in pumpkin goop.

 

 

The faces on our porch.

 

 

The next party we went to was a costume party so you get an exclusive look

at our Halloween festivities this year.

 

                                            
                                            Confused? She's a butterfly driving a truck, concept inspired by a
                                            favorite Caspar Babypants song.

                                             
                                              and Brixton really wanted to be a monster,
                                              a "fwendly monster." Check and check.

 It's nice when your outfit also makes a great table.

                        and thankfully the party came equiped with a swing to burn off some of the sugar.


I can't believe we haven't even gotten to the real holiday yet. whew.

the official Halloween shot

Ok, I know you already saw the costumes but this is our shot from the official day. I have some kind of pulled muscle/pinched nerve in my neck and I'm supposedly starting National Novel Writing Month tonight so....
I'm not sure how much blog posting will be happening. Anyway, we had a fun time trick or treating in the neighborhood last night and now the kids are having candy hangovers.

a trial run

We decided to do a practice trick or treat run at our neighborhood business district. This is the first time Brixton's been aware of this whole Halloween thing. He would walk up to each merchant and say "ticka teat" and show off a piece of candy. He was amazed when each time, they smiled and gave him more. I loved his monkey costume and Unity loved being Fancy Nancy, her favorite children's book star. She told me that this is how she wants to look every single day. And now we get to do it again tomorrow!

Linking with Amanda at Weekending.

Jack O'Lanterns

Halloween

And I got the Halloween pictures up before Thanksgiving! Whoo. Unity was a butterfly and Brixton wasn't much interested in costumes so he was a King- for a few minutes at least. We joined Reuben and his family for some trick-or-treating on their block. Reuben was a pumpkin. He and Unity had a ball.