Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Halloween—Post Mortem Post

Halloween is just about my favorite holiday. I absolutely love that if you are kid and you want candy, all you have to do is throw a white sheet over your head (alternatively, borrow Dad’s old clothes and go as “hobo"), knock on people’s door for three hours and say three little words and you end up with a pillowcase full of candy. It’s the BEST thing about America.

Ellis switched gears mid stream and decided NOT to go as Jasmine, which was the costume we ordered for her off the internet, after doing approximately 3.7 million searches for “princess costume.” So she’s Santa. Or an elf. Or just wearing a sparkly dress, a hat and a Christmas bow. Whatever. We could never get a straight answer our of her.

And another of her, because Jonah refused to put his costume back on after we all got home.

Lucas went gallivanting around the neighborhood in this get up. Earlier he had on a button down shirt and tie and a cool hat and the same shag rug coat. He was a pimp, basically. Did we let our twelve year old go around the neighborhood and down to his piano teacher’s house, dressed as pimp? Not so much. We settled on letting him take the guitar from Guitar Hero and he’s a “rock star,” possibly a very small, and very white Lenny Kravitz. “Lucas Kravitz,” perhaps.

And we have Carrie here with the win! She had to work so she and her friend got a bit of a late start. But they went as the cardinals from the Monty Python “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!” skit. Genius.

Happy Halloween everybody!!

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