Happy Halloween!

I hope you all had a great one!  We had a really good one all things considered!  Clara came home from school sick on Monday (we think a touch of food poisoning) and is having a hard time getting back to normal.  Although she's no longer "sick", she's having a hard time eating :-(

Anyway, because of this, our plans were a little up in the air on Wednesday.  Clara ended up going to school and hanging in there.  She came home from school and rested so she could go out that night for a little while.  She was so excited about her costume that she just had to wear it!

So, here we have Miss Holly Golightly and Cat, ready for a night out trick or treating...

I just had to try one in black and white...

But here's the color version as well...

She was having so much fun posing in character...

And look!  Holly found Waldo!

Alex and BMO...

Waldo...

I had more things to do to complete his costume, but with Clara sick, I ran out of time :-(  Oh well... everyone still knew who he was!

The girls and BMO...

Looking for trick or treaters to give candy to...

Waldo... deep in thought....

I was just testing camera settings here, but the resulting photo amused me...

The gang...

The older boys made it up and down one block before they were done.  They went back to hang out by the fire pit (our neighbors had moved theirs to their front yard), roast hotdogs and pass out candy.  The younger three made it up and down one more block.

This is Clara's haul from just going up and down two blocks!!!

Clara's friend from dance picked her up for a quick trip to a "haunted backyard".  After that she was D.O.N.E..  She tried to eat some dinner, but that didn't go well at all, so she went straight to bed.  She's home again today, but she did manage to successfully have some lunch (all bland stuff though)... so maybe we're headed in the right direction!