Halloween the Mega Post

Last week was super crazy for me work wise so I more or less failed in my motherly make-Halloween-awesome duties. I had a work conference and system conversion which took all my time and energy. Thanks to Grandma Cheryl I do have a picture of Annie dressed up in her gypsy costume at school. She's the one staring down the bumble bee. I don't why these words are blue and underlined. My new computer is scary.These are the only pictures I have of Annie's toddler class and they'll be the last. Today was her first day in the 3-year old class. We decided she's an old sole and fits in better with older kids. I wouldn't call it skipping a grade but you can if you want.
She rocked her first day though and I got several unsolicited comments along the lines of 'did you say she's only 2?' I'll stop now before I get way too braggy...basically she sings Slippery Fish like a 3 year old. What can I say. She's advanced.
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Next up are pictures of Charlie dressed as Spiderman at his school. Oh wait. They didn't want the kids in costume all day so his costume went to school in a paper sack and I never got to see him. Because of work I missed his school's party.
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Next up is a picture of Charlie dressed up as Luke Skywalker at his friend's Halloween party on Saturday. Oh wait. Didn't take pictures of that either. Can't even use work as an excuse for this failure.
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Next up is Charlie the ninja and Annie the Snow White ready to trick-or-treat.

(mouth full of candy the second she got home)

(Charlie was more into counting it than eating it.)

(note: Matt carved the one on the right as Annie, notice the gap between the teeth and the chipped tooth)

Matt and I actually got to go out to an adult party at the neighbor's house without the kiddos on Saturday night. I talked about the kids all night and left at 9 so I could put them to bed. I'm pretty cool. I have a hard time with Halloween. I don't know if it's because my mom used to bribe me with whole bags of Halloween candy to not go trick-or-treating when I hit middle school or if it's because my senior year of college I went as a groom with my friend Anna as my bride and we ended up at different parties. I just looked like a sad lesbian in my white tux and bad wig all night. Or maybe it was the year I started dating Matt and he went as the devil and his mom dressed me up as an angel in her lingerie. Something about being an angel in your boyfriend's moms naughty clothes messed with my head. Or maybe it's because I feel like every year of my life I got the 'what are you supposed to be' question and it always hurt me somewhere deep.
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So to even go to the neighbor's party, in costume, was a big deal in my fragile head. I survived though and the next day my neighbor said I had the funniest costume at the party. Boo. Yah. I might be back Halloween. I might be back.
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So anyways, since the party was just next door Matt actually ended up closing down the place and stayed until midnight. Wild times for the Rings. Wild, wild times.

(Adam Morrison circa 2005 and a pregnant Hooters girl making some bad choices)

Next holiday please.