happy halloween

working on the little weenies

ready to go

a cute little pumpkin

first halloween

Halloween was as hyper and giddy as ever. My parents host a costume party, and that was last night, very fun. The kids were way into it. I’m responsible for treat bags, games, crafts. I just use the same box of collected crap over and over, same general idea for the last 7 years now.

my cute mother

They were all charged up for the mummy wrap game—wrapping each other in toilet paper, and the Pin-the-Tail-On-the-Cat game. I think they like the predictability… and yet it’s all new to TC. Woo Hoo. Put a bandana on me and twirl me in circles, aim me at the cat with the glitter eyes.

My folks decorate their basement with the craziest Halloween decorations, make sloppy joes and so forth, deviled eggs and cookies that look like eyeballs, big bowl of punch with frozen hands floating in it. (One year a roll of toilet paper went INTO the punch. Whoops. Sorry, Grandma.)

We bring the little weenies wrapped in crescent dough. They ate FIVE—five packages of weenies, five tubes of crescent dough. I stop at five. They’d eat ten if there were ten.

We’ve even brought these to somewhat dignified adult parties where we were supposed to bring an appetizer and people are like, “Dude! Little weenies! Where’s the ketchup?” They’re strangely addictive. I ate four cold with the raw dough before I kicked myself out of the kitchen.

Now they're asleep and I should go check their bags for mini Mounds, and any stray Almond Joy bars. You know how kids hate coconut. love, Val

a little cat

trick or treaters

a princess and a leprechaun