Halloween!

Dumbo the flying pacadermHOPE butterfly (HOPE for Ari mascot)

Bellarina

A new Halloween tradition has fallen into our laps, and I'm so happy it has. This is the second year in a row that our street has thrown a Halloween block party, complete with a costume parade, kids of all ages, candy passer-outers (for those of us who want to go trick-or-treating with the kids), dinner and delicious treats for everyone! It is also the second year that the Edwards family has joined us for this event (see last year -- thankfully, this year came without any tragedy). We had such a great time this year. The kids have figured out that if that say "trick-or-treat", they get candy in their pumpkins... magic. Even Ariana got to say the magic phrase with her talker, a.k.a her augmentative communication device.

Here's how the trick-or-treating went...

*ding dong*

Kids: "Trick or treat!"

Adult: "Oh, how cute. Here you go!"

Kids: "Thank you! Happy Halloween."

Adult: "Happy Halloween."

Kids: "CLOSE THE DOOR!"

So nice :). (Chrissy, I warned you).

"Oooh scary! Scary man mom. I wanna see the scary man!"

This series of pictures is entitled 'the slowest walking, most distracted trick-or-treaters on the block':

Gabe: "C'mon Lana!"

Lana: "C'mon Gabe!""Lolipop POWER!"