Happy Hallow-eenie

well, yepm thefestivities are complete. the costumes are packaged up/placed in the laundry basket for some heavy duty cleaning. a good good time was had, and the parental units that were the escorts were very pleased with the events of the evening.

pounds and pounds of candy were collected. i think that the dads (aforementioned parental unit-escorts - do you see where i am going with this??) don't exactly *watch* the collecting until it's too late. you know, like when the candy bag has been dragging on the ground from the weight of the candy for thirteen, maybe fourteen neighborhoods ... that's the time to perhaps call the end to the collecting.

yep, pounds are sitting on the dining room table. last year we "bought" the candy back and traded it for some cashola to the squirts - worked well, they BOTH still have that cash, and quite a bit more in savings so perhaps we can coerce them to go that route again .... we'll see.

so, anyway, enough of the blather - here they are:

what? you can't figure out the costumes? c'mon - clearly those two fine upstanding, save-the-day superhero-esque citizens are none other than:

A Monarch Butterfly with super wings on her back that you can't see in the picture

and....

Dude, Seriously?! Our resident homegrown superhero.

ah, the joys of sweet, innocent, and deliciously "benign" costumes on my kids .... i fear that i only have a few years left of sweet and innocent based on the dreadful costumes that arrived at my front door - you know, bloody, and twisted minded costume ideas. {sigh}

I'll take a butterfly and superhero ANY day! :o)

and of course, the Devil Dog was in the spirit .... for a minute or two while i snapped the pictures ....

the other two have done this routine before ... they were hiding when he donned this little diddy. silly 7 month old! ;)

hope you had a fun night ....