these Lines across my Face: Oh, Right, Halloween

Jane is still talking about Halloween. Anytime she sees anything resembling a costume she starts telling me how she wants to dress up as "bat cat" (a character from Charlie and Lola) and take her pumpkin to the church to get some trick or treats. Anyway, it reminded me that I didn't post about Halloween, just a sneak peak of costumes. LAME! So here you go. We didn't really get any perfect pictures...*sigh* That's really my weak spot, methinks. But we got enough kinda cute pictures to give you the idea.

I had a whole day of activities planned and I had the costumes finished well in advance so that we wouldn't be rushing around in past years. For a brief, glimmering moment I thought Eric might come with us for part of the day. I was wrong. I really, really, hope that next year Eric gets to celebrate holidays with his family, for real, for real. This is the third year Eric has wanted to carve a Trogdor pumpkin. He made a pattern his first year of law school and each year I faithfully buy pumpkins and three years in a row we have thrown out moldy pumpkins in November that never got carved. Wah, wah. Anyway, The Trunk or Treat was in the middle of nap time. Do you think my Jane decided to nap early? Uh, no. Did Emiline cooperate either? Nope. So we missed our town's little celebration but we did make it out the door to our church's Trunk or Treat. But not without tears. I actually bribed her with a sucker to get a smile on her face and her body down the hall and to the elevator. That did the trick as you can see.

You know, bribery works. But only on holidays ;-) Jane got the hang of trick or treating pretty quickly. Amazing how kids lose their shyness when candy is involved.

This is my dear friend Bree.

This is Jane saying "um, this isn't candy!" In fact, any candy that she didn't recognize was not allowed in her pumpkin. She was polite about taking what she was given, but then I had to take it. You should have heard the screech when I put a box of Dots in her bag...not that I minded pocketing those.

Here are the Metzgers trying to get Jane to talk to her...she put up with it and didn't squawk. She's getting better at being "polite."

I took Jane at the very beginning (I think the only thing that Mormons are ever on time for is Trunk or Treat) while Emiline napped and Eric studied at home. Then we went and picked up Emiline. She was pretty happy to sit and watch. Plenty to see!!

Jane consented to a portrait with her mom. She was constantly on the edge of a sugar crash and I would keep her from plunging one smartie at a time. She ran a lot of circles off that rush!