Halloweentown

So last year was technically her first Halloween, but she mostly slept through it and we weren’t up to jamming her in a costume just yet … too tired! But this year, she was an essential part of our family getup, which was Ray's brilliant idea: We did Raising Arizona, with Ray as H.I. McDonough (Hawaiian shirt, sideburns, pantyhose on his head, package of Huggies), me as Ed (in cop uniform), and Annika as Nathan, Jr. (grey hoodie from Old Navy). She hit the hay at her usual 7:00, but many photographs were taken, and you’ll be able to see them soon.

The weekend was spent with our friends M&H and the rest of the Sauce crew, and I think we wore that baby plumb out – in her cute new tiny Robeez slipper shoes, she wandered all over the house, looking at a million new things (the band room, with its nests of cords for mics, guitars, amps, etc., was like paradise for her, and a festival of “oh crap!” for us), getting up close to the two dogs (kind and mellow Wilson, a Brittany spaniel, and the mercurial Chihuahua Dexter), staring at the other kids (ages five, seven and almost 8 months), navigating new terrain (thick carpeting, a carpeted step between entryway and living room – she’s a champ at the going up, but bronze medalist at best on the step down), and generally just being so cute it was ridiculous.