View these photos from the bottom to the top. They posted backwards and I don’t want to deal with it on my phone.

Halloween 2021 was a success, I guess. The rain held out. My neighbor had a party that Eve and I attended. Eve wore a Toga costume. I wore a hat and orange socks. Lex went to work. B’Lake was at his girlfriends house.

I wasn’t in the most party mood, but it was nice anyway. She trick-or-treated with a group of kids. I hung out with the parents around the fire pit for awhile then headed home.

I’m posting from my phone where editing is more tricky, so sorry for the photos in reverse order.

Halloween Covid style means trick-or-treating in masks (or not at all), and goodies left on table outside. Basically it’s just walking around in the dark collecting free candy from the street. A child’s dream come true! 😂

Eve went out with her friend and then spent the night. I made a few goodie packages and left them on the porch. Lex played Minecraft. A good time was had by all. 😂🎃

All of my posts should start with a “better late than never” caveat these days.  Halloween was last week.  During book fair week.  I’m exhausted! Eve bought herself a  Shoto Todoroki costume, which is an anime character from My Hero Academia, her new obsession.  It was a pretty amazing costume really.

Shoto Todoroki

Halloween itself was rainy and blustery, but oddly warm. Eve wanted to go trick-or-treating with a bunch of boys from DBS who were all dressing like a bunch of bananas. So Eve, me, Huxley (briefly), two other moms, and a screaming bunch of bananas braved the gusty winds and rain and walked around the neighborhood for an hour and a half, collecting candy. Lex stayed home and doled out candy to the very few people who came to our house.  When Alan got home he opened the garage and put vampire teeth on the Tesla to hand out more candy.

The Tesla Vampire

I was hoping we’d get more trick-or-treaters this year, but due to the newness of the neighborhood and/or the bad weather, we had plenty of leftovers! So, of course, we’ve all been bingeing on candy ever since.

Happy (late) Halloween!

Many weeks ago Eve asked if we could have a Halloween party. After glossing over Halloween altogether last year (a fact she likes to remind me of ), I thought a Halloween party sounded like a great idea. Of course, I didn’t think to look at the calendar when I agreed to this crazy idea! Turns out it’s book fair week, parent conference week, Halloween and a Halloween party, “that time of the month” (TMI, sorry), AND I had to stop taking all allergy medications so I can go next week for testing. Whee! It’s a little crazy around these parts, but we’re having fun!

We had a great Halloween party tonight. Both kids dressed up and we had seven friends over, plus a few parents. I ordered pizza and helped Lex finish his costume between book fair sales this afternoon. We got home in time to move piles of stuff from the living room to the tucked away office and throw a table cloth on the table. Alan got home with pizza just as company was arriving.

Rita Skeeter, Luna Lovegood, a fairy witch, and an inch worm (not in costume), cracking open some butterbeer.

Eve reigns supreme!

Our first trick-or-treater was a little kid from down the street. All the big kids in my house rushed to open the door and hand out candy. :)

Our local OR nurse brought a brain for dinner. Yummy! Brain surgery is her specialty.

There are nine of them there. One is hiding in the back.

I forgot to get a picture of my two alone. I didn’t even get a good picture of either of their costumes.  Eve was Luna Lovegood, from Harry Potter, and Lex was a Minecraft phantom.  He put a lot of work into it, including light up eyes on the head.  It was cool!

Lex’s costume plan

This.

Back at home the candy trading floor opened for business!

We had a lot of candy!

We were home from trick-or-treating around 7:30 and everyone left before 8:30.  Now we are all exhausted!  We had a momentary scare when we couldn’t find the cat anywhere, but she eventually turned up hidden in a pile of Eve’s stuffies.  Jasmine is the best hider ever!

Off to bed now.  Tomorrow is another early morning and late evening for book fair!

Eve and I went out trick-or-treating this evening with her friend from the old neighborhood. :) We met up with a few other friends along the way. It was a perfect night for it. Not too chilly, not rain, not too breezy. Perfect! A few pictures…

Two witches (the one on the right is Ginny Weasley)

The loved how their capes/robes blew in the breeze. :)

The house is ready for Halloween, too bad the path wasn’t. Oh well. Next year.

When dinosaurs go trick-or-treating. :) This is one of our friends we were trick-or-treating with. He definitely had the best costume of the night!

Great Halloween decorations.

A witch, a dinosaur, Harry Potter, a Ninja Turtle, and Ginny Weasley.

Unicorn met T-rex and a (fake) battle ensued!

The loot!

We got exactly 4 kids (2 families) trick-or-treating at our house this year, all of them friends. Plenty of left-over candy in this house!

Turns out Halloween is just a short few weeks away.  Who knew?!  In my house it has been a total non-event.  Both kids say they want to dress up and go trick-or-treating, but neither can decide what to be.  We haven’t done any decorating and no one seems to care.  Eve told me last week that her friend has amazing Halloween decorations, but she didn’t make any effort to get ours out.  I’m feeling claustrophobic in our cluttered house and can’t stand the thought of adding more to it.  Maybe we’ll just let this one pass us by… or make a mad scramble the day before!  :-)

Halloween 2015.  It was a bit different this year.  The kids both chose character costumes that required money, but little creativity.  I was busy with work and did minimal decorating or planning. 

Evie and Steve

We trick-or-treated with two of Eve’s friends and their mothers and siblings.  I went out with the kids, thinking I could socialize with the moms, while Alan stayed home with one of the dads to hand out candy.  Turns out Eve and her friends were a lot faster than Lex, so they were mostly way ahead while Lex and his big cardboard head and I lagged behind.  Lex and I ended coming home before the rest of the crowd, which was fine.  We got to socialize with Alan and the other dad a bit.  Then one of Eve’s friends and her mom and sister came back to our house and we all hung out, laughing about the evening.  That might have been my favorite part of the night.  :-)

An excited Halloween crowd!

Trick-or-treating

A good night was had by all.  Now to manage the massive amount of candy they acquired!  We went to far more houses than ever before!