Halloween 2009
Halloween was a total blur, mainly because we spent the week leading up to it trying to iron out the bugs of the community website, and as usual I waited until the last minute to buy candy and the only thing left at the grocery store was really expensive dark chocolate that makes little kids throw up.
Great.
So now not only are we the reclusive Internet people who run some sort of online website, have you heard? That house where that little shit of a dog escaped the house one time and chased that woman who was jogging along, minding her own business, and caught up with her and grabbed the bottom of her pants with her fangs? HELLO HEART ATTACK. AND LAW SUIT WAITING TO HAPPEN.
Some people have heard it's porn we do. Some people think we're Satanists and drink the blood of aborted hummingbirds. HA! IF THEY ONLY KNEW! They'd be so thoroughly disappointed and would probably remove my name from the prayer list.
Now we're the house that gives out crap candy. Except one kid dressed up as a hippie saw the bowl and was all DUDE! I LOVE DARK CHOCOLATE! That's a boy beyond his years. I bet he's a good listener and routinely hugs his mother.
Leta went over to her cousins' house and trick-or-treated with all of my sister's kids, and they say that she got fatigued after about an hour and started dragging her feet going I'M SO TIRED. SO TIIIIIIIRED. So my niece said, fine, let's go home, and then Leta realized that going home meant an end to the waterfall of candy, so she'd say, okay, JUST MORE HOUSE. ONE. MORE. And that exact dialogue continued for twenty more houses. And I was all, really? That happened? How surprising.
And then this morning when she refused to get dressed and I threatened to take away all that Halloween candy? Apparently I was treating her "like she was zero years old." I didn't see that one coming.
We stayed home with Marlo to hand out candy and troubleshoot the website. Meaning I made it all the way to 8:30 PM, and while I slept Jon sat beside me in bed with his laptop straightening out code. 8:30, y'all! Can I get a very awkward high-five and a HOLLA! That was the latest I had stayed up in MONTHS. SOMEONE STOP ME! Next thing you know I'm going to be spiking my Metamucil with blackberry schnapps!
Next week, the dogs in costumes! Coco is still exhausted from all the brain power it took to remain still for a photograph.
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flopsykitty said:
Those are the cutest children EVER!
11.06.09 - 01:25 PM / 1Melissa C said:
That last picture made me laugh. Loudly.
11.06.09 - 01:27 PM / 2Ashley_the Acci... said:
I bet your living room floor automatically transforms itself to include a blue background and shooting stars EVERY SINGLE TIME Marlo does something adorable. Which by the way is awesome.
How can I get my hands on kick ass flooring such as this?
11.06.09 - 01:28 PM / 3Lizzy B. said:
That last picture of Marlo is BRILLIANT.
11.06.09 - 01:28 PM / 4KellyKjellberg said:
too cute! i had a similar experience with my 5 y/o trick or treating, but she didnt do the one more house thing.... she wanted to home immediately when she was tired! course i bought good candy and she wasnt worried about losing out...
cant wait to see the dogs!
11.06.09 - 01:30 PM / 5I Had Ice said:
Ha ha! I bought mini bags of pretzels to hand out and the husband told me I might as well give out pencils and erasers while I was at it. Fun!
I ended up spending another $35 on candy he approved of, and somehow we survived another Halloween.
You should have made Marlo's eyes bigger on that last picture, to make her appear cartoonish.
Love it! Leta looks lovely, as usual. I envy those eyebrows.
11.06.09 - 01:32 PM / 6Sumunro said:
Marlo appears to have super powers like a Saturday morning cartoon character from the 70's.
Neat.
11.06.09 - 01:34 PM / 7mandiegirl said:
OMG! That last photo is freaking HILARIOUS! :) Love the little glo worm!
11.06.09 - 01:35 PM / 8SheilaJ said:
Love bug!! Too cute and Leta is adorable
11.06.09 - 01:36 PM / 9Snippet said:
Such cute costumes, I can't wait to see the dogs'! I love Marlo with the blue star-burst background!!
11.06.09 - 01:36 PM / 10WanderingOne said:
Dude, I totally want Marlo's costume. It looks so comfortable; I want to live in it. I'd never have to go to bed, and why? Because I'd be wearing it!
11.06.09 - 01:37 PM / 11angelbee said:
Those two are so cute!
11.06.09 - 01:43 PM / 12jenny said:
The last photo is excellent. Your children are so adorable! I can't wait to see the dogs in their get-up. :D
11.06.09 - 01:47 PM / 13analogwatch said:
OMG. I love that last picture of Marlo! My two-month-old was a penguin but she looks so unhappy in all the photos (she hates hats) that I really can't do such an awesome photoshopping job on any of hers. :(
11.06.09 - 01:49 PM / 14danil0v said:
I LOVE the fact that I'm not the only one who is routinely passed out by 8:30. . It's humiliating really; I catch myself commenting to my husband around 7:30 - 8:00 that 'it's gettin' kinda late.' Ya - late only for the select group of people on the planet right now raising 2 small children!
11.06.09 - 01:50 PM / 15stargirlmia89 said:
Hahaha I loooove that last picture. I laughed so hard! They both look very cute :)
11.06.09 - 01:52 PM / 16VBVB said:
Love the costumes! Marlo is sure starting to look a lot like Leta! WOW!
11.06.09 - 01:52 PM / 17Anu said:
Absolutely adorable. Leta is the cutest witch ever and Marlo is so cute it hurts :)
11.06.09 - 01:54 PM / 18Red Fury said:
My question is: What is happening to the excess dark chocolate now?!
I was expecting 200 kids, received 12 and have now consumed six (OK - 27), mini Aero bars.
At least you are getting the benefit of anti-oxidants!
11.06.09 - 01:56 PM / 19HDC said:
Super mega SPARKLE BABY!
Also, Leta's witch hat rules.
11.06.09 - 01:55 PM / 20Milla said:
ok, you've convinced me to have babies now, just so i can dress them up like tacos for halloween. then i will put hot sauce on them and eat them. nom nom nom.
11.06.09 - 01:56 PM / 21sundance moods said:
Marlo's costume is just too darn cute! OMG!
11.06.09 - 01:57 PM / 22Erin@TheLocalsLoveIt said:
Man you make cute kids.
11.06.09 - 02:05 PM / 23Jennifer M. said:
That picture of you kissing Marlo is perfect. That look on your face says it all.
11.06.09 - 02:07 PM / 24Mommys Blend said:
I am totally loving Leta's attitude lately via this & twitter... and she makes a totally adorable witch. I'd so let her cast a spell or two.
Now onto the Marlo costume -- I fucking love that costume. My son was in a little Halloween-y jumper thing for his first Halloween, he was about 2 months old though... but the little bug thing is stinkin' cute.
Thank you, as always, for entertaining me when I should be doing something productive like... my college assignments or housework or writing or entertaining the demon spawn, I mean, my lovely adorable three year old son that never makes me want to rip my hair out. Much.
I love having things HELP me procrastinate.
11.06.09 - 02:08 PM / 25Shiree in Salt ... said:
Leta needs to be modeling. Seriously - that gorgeous white skin and those eyes! WOW Marlo is a cutie pie, and your Leta is amazingly beautiful!
11.06.09 - 02:15 PM / 26laurahoward said:
Can you please tell me where you got Marlo's costume? I have to have it!
11.06.09 - 02:18 PM / 27asdotnet said:
I can not point out the resemblance between enough. It is like a mini me for Leta. Those eyes, those cheeks, THAT MOUTH
11.06.09 - 02:19 PM / 28Love_Monkey said:
I want to take that last picture and make a greeting card out of it that says, "I hope your day is so great that you shit sparkles!"
I love it!
11.06.09 - 02:22 PM / 29The Prima Momma said:
Oh my! What a sweet little glo worm!
You have such beautiful daughters.
(At least you're not the house that hands out "nature's candy" i.e. raisins)
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