Halloween '09

I'm cheering tonight because, hooray, Halloween is over! I strongly dislike Halloween for the following reasons: carving gross pumpkins, fretting over costumes, worrying Harper will ingest peanut candy, etc. I don't enjoy this holiday BUT I think I manage to put on a good enough show for the kids. Just because I don't like it doesn't mean they shouldn't, right?

So, here are this year's Halloween pictures:

Michael thinks Halloween is silly and would rather read the paper than carve a pumpkin, thank you very much.

Matt used a stencil from a pumpkin carving kit this year and we ended up with a cool, though way too freaky, witch pumpkin. It was pretty evil looking to begin with, then we accidentally left the candle lit all night last night and the design got a little scorched. Oops.

Michael preferred the pumpkins decorated Mr. Potato Head style, pieces courtesy of Mugga and Grandpa. I love the pirate and not so freaky witch - thanks!

Harper was Dorothy and Michael was her Cowardly Lion (or, as she pronounced it, "Carolly Lion"). I had a terrible time getting a good shot of the two of them, holiday photos should be fun this year!

We drove to Nana and Dziatku's and then to Auntie M's (she made Harper's Dorothy smock/apron); Michael and Rebound were not thrilled to stay home with me when Harper and Matt went to hit some neighborhood streets.

The grandparents, all four of them, spoil our kids so Harper had plenty of safe candy to eat, we let her trade her significant pile of unsafe candy for the new Tinkerbell DVD. She does not suffer on Halloween, that's for sure!

So, do you know what comes after Halloween???

November!

I love November! Harper and I (and many other very cool people) claim November as our birthday month.

And November means National Blog Posting Month which I plan to participate in - for the third time. I probably still have questions to answer from last year, but is there anything you'd particularly like to hear about this year?