Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween.

Looks like we're going to have a pleasant night tonight -- pretty warm temperatures. It reminds us a little of the warm Halloween night when Peter was two and a half. It was so warm that after we took Peter around to a few houses, we sat on the front porch to give out candy. Peter hadn't ever had "candy," like an actual chocolate bar, though he'd had plenty of cake and cookies in his short life. He asked us if he could have some candy. We had planned to just eat all of his candy ourselves, but we gave him a KitKat, thinking it was basically a cookie.

Naturally, he loved it. And craved more. "More candies?" he asked us, his eyes flickering with the need for concentrated sugar as he tugged nervously at his yellow firefighter's coat like a junkie pulling at his soiled t-shirt. We told him that one was plenty.

So he rolled on the front lawn, moaning, "More candies! More candies!"

It was like something out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Anyway, here are the kids' costumes this year.

Catherine as Cleopatra. She keeps asking us about the real Cleopatra, but there's darn little we can actually tell her. The affairs with famous Romans don't seem right, and the whole suicide-by-sanke thing will give her nightmares. We just tell her Cleopatra was beautiful, ands that seems to satisfy her.

John is the Travelocity Gnome.

I still don't get the whole Gnome obsession, but he cracks up every time he even talks about it -- enough that he tries to quote a Travelocity commercial, but can't quite get the words out through the laughter.

He cracks himself up, which I totally respect.

Peter is just kind of carrying his own head around.

He's probably not going to actually wear this tonight, since it's a little hard to hold both one's own head and a full bag of candy. He wore it to a Halloween dance last weekend, and won first prize for Most Original Costume.

Kind of a long way from the whole cute little firefighter thing....