Halloween

Carter finally got to wear his Spiderman costume on Halloween. We actually got it for him about a year and a half ago at a garage sale but he didn't wear it last year because he decided to be a horse again. He's been randomly wearing it whenever we have company over, at birthday parties and dinner parties. Pretty much anytime he wants to interact with people in a group setting. I think he likes having an alter ego for these occasions.

We got Callie's costume via mail order. She's Hermoine the witch from Harry Potter. The costume came with the robe and the scarf and she added in the white dress shirt and book. I got to try out my new lathe by turning her a wand. It was actually my first useful project off the new tool. Turned out to be a bit harder than I expected since it has to be so thin. She designed it and I somehow managed to meet her exact specifications.

As per usual, Kerry takes the kids over to Kristen and Ryan's to trick or treat at their house before coming back to our neighbourhood. Kristen was part of Lightning McQueen's pit crew and Ryan was a monkey. A very fitting costume for him since he's quite mischievous like Curious George. I always miss this since I stay home to great the Halloween trick or treaters. This year we had a new record with 86 kids.

I continue to add to our halloween decoration kit each year. I usually like to buy things the day before Halloween or right afterwards as by then they've marked everything down. This year I even got some halloween decorations as Christmas presents so. It only takes a couple of hours to set up and it makes our house more inviting for the neighbour hood kids. We're in a bit of a side street so anything we can do to entice them on to our street helps.