Well although I love Halloween as much as Sarah, I was not as involved this year since I was in Ashboro at a conference until about 7:30pm Halloween night. Our porch, however, has had a definite Halloween theme for about a month and "cricket" adds to the ambiance so well.
Meg was fantastic - she sorted out Emma's masquerade ball dress and Harrison's pteradactyl costumes, took Harrison to a pumpkin patch with his school, and when I caught up with them trick or treating on Friday with some of our friends, she had a stroller equipped with chilled beer! I don't seem to have good photos of Harrison in character - he looks a little like a pear below, but it really was quite a cute outfit. I was proud to note that he manfully drew the line at wearing the hood for more than about 30 seconds.
So Harrison is actually riding at the back of this little trolley and there is another boy in his class who may have curlier and crazier hair than his! Meg informs me that in the past few days that I have been gone, the parents finally caved and cut his hair - we may have to consider that option at some point, but Meg has to psychologically prepare herself and there is a good chance it will be the end of the curls.
On Saturday I took the children to a birthday party at the local gym.
Harrison's hands were clammy with sweat after his ride on the "air pogo stick". The ground was padded underneath but he didn't know that ...
... and then we mucked about beside the intracoastal waterway at low tide in the late afternoon for a few minutes before picking up Levi and Liza for a sleepover.
Yeah, so Harrison is wearing brand new $50 stride-rights here
It was the first time Levi had had a sleepover so his parents were rather excited. It was nice for Harrison to have some company and everyone enjoyed playing in the garden and roasting marshmallows over a fire. I retired upstairs to play a videogame as soon as the children were settled into a movie ...
time flew by I guess because when I came down everyone was asleep, including Meg, with Levi happily sleeping next to her. I did not dare move him!
Today was windy but beautifully sunny so we all kayaked over to Zeke's Island, off the end of Fort Fisher. A hermit lived there for years until he died, but we could not find any evidence of a hut or anything. I think a movie was made about him ... I must check it out.
Meg heads off to San Francisco early in the morning for most of this week ... she will be greatly missed by us all.
