Fantastic Four: Halloween!

We are slowly recovering from Halloween and the time change. Who knew that one hour could make such a difference?

We had a wonderful time last night - Nina and Pops and Grampy and Grampa came down to take the kids trick-or-treating. So besides being high from the sugar, Sam and Caroline were flying high having both sets of their adored grandparents around. Sam just looked from Pops to Grampa saying "Pee-paw? Pee-paw?", as if he couldn't quite grasp that they were both in the same room.

Try as we might to get Sam in the Nemo costume that Caroline wore, we were unsuccessful - so he ended up wearing his Superman jammies. Caroline was the Queen of Hearts (again). This is not to be confused with being "clean of heart", which we talked about at church this morning - and to which Caroline promptly replied (not in a church voice, mind you), "The Queen of Hearts? Thats ME!"

We are loving our new camera, especially since we saw it in a store for $40 more than what we paid for it directly from Kodak. So far the pictures have been very good. It does a better job helping me keep up with the kids than the older version.

The kids had a red letter day mail-wise on Friday. Caroline got a new sweater ("Mama - it's the best colors!") and they both got Halloween beanies. We could hardly contain the excitement in the house - it was a bit crazy - but a lot of fun to watch. Christmas should be a hoot! CJ loves her new sweater, but was less thrilled about having to stand next to Sam to have her picture taken.

We're almost done raking the yard - only a couple more passes and we'll be all set. I suppose the good thing about the ice storm in December and losing so many trees is that there are a LOT less leaves this year.