No pics--yet

I um, apparently grabbed the wrong cord for our camera, so...um, no pics of our ghoulish Trick-or-Treaters yet.

It was a great night. Mary agonized for weeks about what to be for Halloween until I had the idea of her dressing up as Coraline. One yellow raincoat and a can of blue hair spray later--and we had a winner! Mary really enjoyed surprising her classmates on Friday with the blue hair (and I even "bobbed" her hair by pinning it underneath for her).

Izzy kept going back and forth between Bat Girl and a Butterfly (which is what MARY wanted her to be). Mom made the executive decision--Bat Girl just fits her personality soooo much better!

Keith originally wanted to be Wolverine. One glimpse of all the Clone Trooper costumes out there changed that decision QUICKLY. Go Star Wars!

We were supposed to go out with two families Saturday night. Well, our neighbors bailed on us to go with another family. Then our other friends decided to stay in due to the Flu from Hell which had hit their house last week. We Q's hit a few of our immediate neighbor's houses and then went ahead and trick-or-treated in our Sickly Friends' neighborhood (better neighborhood for trick-or-treating--and then we could ALSO pick up our GS cookies which had just been shipped in THAT DAY!).

The wind/rain started picking up just as we were heading out. The kids were upset, but it didn't stay bad but for a few minutes. Mary kept the hood up on her raincoat anyway to help protect the precious blue hair. If anyone was confused about her costume of just a simple yellow raincoat (with a little black cat stuffed in the pocket), they never said anything (our friends teased her by saying she looked like the Gorton's Fisherman--or the Morton salt girl).

Izzy was the most exuberant one. She was cracking us up. Every house she would just YELL "TRICK OR TREAT!" while bouncing up and down. And "THANK YOU." Even if her brother/sister forget, any patrons were well-assured that SHE was grateful for the candy!

We weren't out long when the kids started whining about the heaviness of their pumpkins. Woo hoo! Our work here is done!

We let the kids stay up late as we ate a late dinner (had a late lunch that day at our favorite Japanese restaurant--yum!). All slept well.

Saturday morning I got up as normal and then rushed to the meeting I had--showing up a whole hour early as I COMPLETELY FORGOT ALL ABOUT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!! D'oh! Ah well--we got more done! (This is the first time I've ever done that. Crap!) This family had been hit hard with the Flu from Hell the prior week, too. And the one little boy's temperature had gone back up (that's one of the big symptoms--roller coaster temperatures), so he was in bed for the whole time I was there.

So then Mary and I got ready to go to our GS meeting. Guess what? My co-leader (the one who bailed on us due to whole family getting this flu--whose neighborhood we trick-or-treated in?) still didn't feel well--so I got to run the meeting all by myself.

So...I guess it should be no surprise that Friday--just about an hour before we headed out the door to demand candy from the neighbors--Izzy developed a slight cough. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The good news is--it's still only a slight cough. She only coughs a handful of times in the day, and has a some-what "frogginess" to her voice. She is still playing and bouncing around just like our fun-loving, normal Izzy. The bad part--the cough is one of the first symptoms to this Plague from Hell.

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I suspect time off from work in my future....