The Halloween shenanigans around here began with the Halloween Parade at school yesterday. There was one last year, but they hadn't been allowed to call it a Halloween Parade for some reason, so this is the first official Halloween Parade. For those of you who don't already know, Leo was dressed as a pirate -- this should not be a surprise in the slightest.
Daniel, of the usual suspects (left); Leo a.k.a. Pirate Boy (center); and Ellie (right) lining up for the parade.
He woke up from his nap with a fever, and so wasn't feeling well through the parade. In fact, he spent almost all of it being carried by Kirstin. When we got home, he stretched out on the couch and really didn't eat much dinner.
This is about 5 minutes after we got in the door. I had hardly had a chance to set stuff down.
Here's our jack-o-lantern in situ. Leo helped Kirstin design it, I got the job of gutting it, and she did most of the carving. Next year, we're getting at least two.
We still went trick-or-treating with Mason and family, anyway. Mason was the Little Red Caboose; Jeni was the big black engine. Neither of us dressed up, in part because I discovered too late that my tux shirts had not made it from North Carolina. (Add a martini glass to get 007.) It took us about an hour to go around the block, about the same as last year. The boys were both big hits and had really good manners throughout the evening. A few of our neighbors did an incredible job on their multiple pumpkins; unfortunately, the pictures of those mostly didn't turn out.
Here we have a static shot trick-or-treating at a house that's just a few doors down the block. It's probably a bit of a shame that we don't know many people by name except for the Gentrys and our immediately next-door neighbor.
This film comes toward the end of the night, at a house just up the street from the Gentrys (and therefore us, but on the other side).
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