Trick-or-Treat

• Grandma likes to call Nathan and all small children, her "punkin." Nathan always refused this term of endearment with a firm voice stating, "I am not a 'pumpkin,' I am Nathan." On Halloween night we dressed Rilla in this cute onesie. Nathan admiringly commented, "Rilla is Grandma's Pumpkin."

• I have been a bit behind....However, I suppose since retailers and radio stations could promote Christmas the day after Halloween, I can post our Halloween update 12 days before Christmas. I am happy that my children even had costumes to wear. I had come home from the hospital on a Saturday evening and sewed 2 costumes before Wednesday evening and only had purchased the fabric Tuesday afternoon. I am grateful to Wall-Mart for their bargain fabrics which inspired the "Snow Queen" and "Jawa" costumes which only cost me $6.00. Tessa prefers to be animals for Halloween and luckily, I remembered I had made Ray & Noah matching Duck costumes 6 years ago. Of course, once Nate saw Tessa's Duck costume, he could no longer wear the frog costume we'd already acquired for him, so I quickly made a few adjustments to Ray's duck costume so he could match Tessa.