Although I haven't posted much in 2013, I'm not even going to attempt to catch up. I'm just posting what's going on now. And what's going on now is Halloween!
Rachel's excited for candy!
Jakin was a cyclist. Corban was Calvin (as in Calvin and Hobbes). And Aidan was a baseball.
Annie has been excited for Halloween for at least six weeks. She dressed as Lucy from Narnia. Although it's tough to see, she is holding a glass bottle for Lucy's cordial and a dagger. Lauren dressed as a unicorn.
Half the fun of trick-or-treating is coming back to the house and checking out all the loot. The kids raked in an obscene amount of candy. Full pumpkins. Like their mother before them, most of my kids like to sort and organize their candy. They also like making trades.
The evening was rainy, but it was actually quite pleasant. The temperatures were warm and the rain wasn't falling heavily, so it was nice to be outside. The rain didn't damper the kids' spirits at all. They still ran from house to house on our familiar route. For better or worse, we trick-or-treat in our own neighborhood, where there aren't many other kids out. Consequently, at each house our kids are offered two or three pieces of candy because the neighbors know they won't get many kids knocking on their door. Multiply that by a couple dozen houses and the candy haul is significant. There's nothing quite like this is my kids' lives. The sheer quantity of it all makes them giddy. On the day after Halloween they asked if they could dump out their candy again just to look at it again.
