Halloween

I am so far behind. I've missed blogging about, anniversaries, birthdays and holidays. Well, this week I will try to rectify that situation. Today I will tackle the topic of Halloween. The weather was nice. For the school parade, Emma went as as a boy. She was pretty convincing too, I almost missed her when she walked by. As you can tell, she didn't want her picture taken. Caleb made one of the cutest Harry Potters that I've ever seen (me biased? No way!)

Rachel didn't want to get dressed up even though she won a contest at school the day before for dressing up as a hippy. On Halloween, her friend came over and they dressed up as punk girls complete with the black lipstick and pink streaks in their hair. I thought they made pretty cute non-threatening punks if you ask me. Unfortunately, Rachel left before I could take her picture and when she came home, she was already cleaned up (sigh).

I went trick-or-treating with Caleb and his friend. To prove a point to Rachel that it is possible to pull together a costume with the materials we had at home, I went as a fortune teller. No, of course I didn't think to take a picture of me! What? You think I could be that clear thinking? Cabes and I hit almost every house in the neighborhood and he got quite a haul. After the trading with his sisters though, he had less than either one of his sisters. Hmmm.


Emma the alien went with her friend and her mom but they quit earlier than we did so she didn't go to as many houses. She wanted to join up with us but I didn't have my phone with me. That made me sad. Any time either girl wants to spend time with me nowadays, I jump at the chance. They're such cool girls but I'm not sure they feel that way about their mom.

I have this little bonsai tree that I've had for almost eight years suddenly die on me. I had this stroke of genius and I made it into a spooky Halloween tree. My favorite? The ghostie with the eyebrows.

All in all, Halloween was good. It was a little bittersweet this year because the kids are getting older. I miss dressing my little girls up as fairies. I remember the year I went as The Cat in the Hat and Rachel and Emma were Little Cats A and B. At least I still have Caleb to dress up for a while longer.