The Second Day of Halloween!

on the Second Day of Halloween, we celebrated one more day until trick r' treating with a big stash of good stuff! even eloise got a present:

and since we love books in our house, there were a few more for bebe as well:

 and then of course some other fun stuff:

 there were candy corn canes with jack o'lantern heads, sticky, stretchy skeletons, skull and lantern noise makers, silly string, a classic disguise, and some ghastly finger puppets! and it all appeared in a witch's cauldron just ready to be stuffed with candy on Halloween!

 on our last round of scary noises, we kept it a little low-key so elo wouldn't get freaked out too much.

 "a book? where's my candy?"

 "CANDY CORN!"

 "candy corn,"

 "i love you."

 'nuff said.

 silly string 'splosion.

 and i quote, "FINGER PUPPETS! MORE FINGER PUPPETS! I AM SOOOO LUCKY!"

and then, after inspecting the haul

it was time to load up and head to bed!

goodnight! see you tomorrow, on HALLOWEEN!

(we had internet issues at the end of the day, so this one is late. it's like winter is jealous or something...)

The Third Day of Halloween!

well, well, well. the Third Day of Halloween certainly had more tricks than treats. nearly twenty inches of snow, to be exact (and inexact- at the same time!).

 this is what the front and back yards of our house looked like at three pm. by 9 pm, we had eighteen inches of snow on the ground! and wouldn't you know it- as soon as we all started remarking upon how grand it was that we hadn't lost power- bam. power loss. though not entirely terrible since we have a generator that runs nearly all of the lights and a few key appliances. still, with two small kids it's less than ideal. plus, no internet, so this post goes up hella late, as uncle ben might say. coincidentally, uncle ben and aunt marge were visiting this weekend!

on this cold and stormy night, we found a cadre of dancing skeletons

 ...that glowed in the dark!

 unfortunately, they didn't glow all that strongly, and i had eloise in one arm trying to take these pics, so they're not so great. but i think you get the idea.

and again, we had to use our "cartman" stand-in since all of our jack o'lanterns were moldy-oldies:

 we always also use an actual pumpkin behind the scenes though!

when it came time to make spooky noises, we had some extra boys and ghouls to help:

 uncle ben was throwing out jazz hands, and let me tell you, there's nothing scarier than jazz hands!

 wow! skeletons! awesome!

we found a spot on the wall right next to bebe's bed and hung them there to dance and glow all night!

we're coming down to our last two days! stay tuned!

The Fourth Day of Halloween!

the Fourth Day of Halloween is ghost day!

 we had these scary little guys

 ...and this guy, who was full of skittles, one of bebe's favorite kind of candy!

and lastly, there was this guy-

 pretty cool!

 "I don't see what the big deal is. it's not like you can eat pretty lights. i'm full of candy!"

this is bebe trying really hard to get him to turn on:

why don't you try that little button on the side.

 "oh yeah! cool!"

 then she decided that they all needed to go for a walk in her little basket.

meanwhile, i took a shot of our front door, or what has become our lantern graveyard!

see you tomorrow night- getting closer and closer!