Halloween

We made it.

Between Neko's desire to be a pink mermaid (and the costume industry's less-than-pure concept of what a "youth mermaid" costume should look like) and Shep's desire to be WALL-E (as, apparently, did half of America…not a costume to be found), we were a bit challenged this year. I worked on finding and altering the most appropriate mermaid costume out there. Tom put his design degree to work, and fabricated Shep's whole costume. Ellery got to be a turtle, because, well, we had a turtle costume on hand.

As we don't live in much of a neighborhood, we had to find a place to trick-or-treat. We were looking for a short-ish street. Enough houses to make the kids feel fulfilled, but not enough to keep us out too late. Poor Akiko…we ended up in her neighborhood. As did many others. I promise we'll stalk someone else's neighborhood next year so your neighbors don't grumble. But I think it speaks highly of her neighborhood! I do get the occasional pang for suburban living, and Halloween often brings it on.

Anyway, a suddden blast of warm weather and sneaking in Halloween just days be daylight saving time ended, we had a perfect evening out.

I'll apologize to Tom in advance for that picture of he and Ellery, where he looks like he's air-kissing, but it's the only one I have with Ellery. And, as a third child, I fear that 12 years from now someone will give me hell because she's photographically missing in Halloween '08. Thanks for taking one for the team.