Happy Halloween

95 pieces of candy/per kid and 2 hours later, our Halloween celebration is (almost) complete. We have 4 sugar-crashing boys watching a Star Wars video in the front room, while Bill and I decompress enjoying a hot cocoa (sugar free, of course) in the kitchen. We walked the length of 11th Avenue both sides of the street (as well as visiting our all-time favorite Halloween house on 12th Avenue) with our buddies the Shumway boys (who joined us for some pre-trick-or-treating pizza) and the Bates family, as well as some miscellaneous friends.

True to his word, Romney decided to switch up his costume for trick or treating, and was a dead scuba diver. (He died because he forgot his Oxygen tank, according to Romney). William's costume was hilarious and spooky, two 11 year old boy favorites he was "Brain-Washed Kid". Our two trick-or-treating buddies for the night went as Totoro (Who may have been inspired by his recent trip to Tokyo, lucky kid!) and a Ninja (who was also recently in Tokyo).


Now the boys have a very important decision to make, do they want to eat their candy or trade it in for a $1/pound at a local dentist office? Hmmmmm....decisions, decisions. (Romney told me tonight he likes fruit better than candy anyway, since he can have as much of the fruit as he wants, but candy-- not so much. Could it be that the parenting is starting to get through to them?)