Halloween and Eve's Birthday

Despite my many protests, Eve has decided it was time to turn seven. I tried to convince her to stay six for another year or two, but she wasn't going for it. Apparently fun things happen at age seven, who knew? Anyway, since she insisted on aging, we figured we'd better put some candles on some cake and sing a little song for her. First she wanted it to be an apple cake, then for a little while she wanted it to be a peach cake, then finally decided what she wanted was apple pie. I've never been a stickler for tradition, so birthday pie it was.

Eve's birthday is the day before Halloween, so she probably thinks that every year everyone gets dressed up to celebrate her. They even give out candy cause they're so happy she was born.

This year the girls decided they wanted to be witches, Harry Potter style. Eve chose to be Ginny Weasley, so she needed some red in her hair.

Laine opted to be Hermione Granger, so her hair got the frizz treatment via the magic of sleeping in dozens of very tiny braids. The boys both wanted to be dragons, which mostly means James wanted to be a dragon an little Squidgy got put in a green jacket with a dragon hood,.

Here are our monkeys together with the Bradley cousins at a little get-together we had at our place. I thought Atticus in the skunk outfit was pretty awesome.

Just for kicks and extra candy we went to a trunk or treat, the candy was good but they kept not putting any in Matthew's bag (for me).

On Halloween night we got all ready to trick or treat, serving a light dinner with soup and sandwiches which James took an hour and a half to got through. He was so slow he missed the first street of trick or treating over at Grammy and Poppa's street and had to stick with them until he finished his sandwich.

We hit a couple streets in our neighborhood next, the kids were so super excited that they ran from house to house, usually with James trailing along behind yelling "Wait up, guys!" After a couple dozen houses of this James and Eve were ready to call it a night. They went home with Mom to pass out candy while Laine and I went took on a few more blocks. We ended up with a pretty good haul, now I'll have plenty of candy to bribe my Primary class with for the rest of the year.