November 7, 2010
Happy Halloweening time! Here are the kiddos right before trunk or treat AND trick or treating.  Anne would barely wear a costume for more than 5 minutes, and she went through almost a dozen, but Maddie appealed to 2yr-old vanity to get her to stay in this Cinderella dress long enough to get some candy.  Brent was Frankenstein (I even broke down and let him wear the fake blood he was "dying to wear," once I realized it was his last trick-or-treating year.  He went with 2 great boys in the ward dressed as the KISS singers--he told me later they had asked him to dress up like them, but he was SURE I wouldn't let him--I told him I would've, but I'm not so sure he believed me :).  Emily was Hermione Granger from Harry Potter (her FAVORITE costume she's ever had!!!-thanks to a brilliant find of a $2 tie at DI, my bathrobe and gray sweater, and a brother's shirt--she even spoke w/ a British accent the whole time she was wearing this!), Spencer was a ninja (just like last year--but since he's a ninja in "real life" it's a shoe-in), and Maddie did great handing out candy, and enjoying her own collection trick-or-treat free.

 Here are the elementary children (plus Anne) before school the day of the school parade and parties--I made wonderful bolts for Brent's neck, if you look closely out of rolled up duct tape, but he quickly "lost" them after the parade--can you see we even sprayed his hair black?--that is a big step for fuddydud Mom!

Lucy has this new negative response she gives us when she's frustrated that CRACKS us up.  It's so hard to get a picture of her doing it though, since she's happy if we're giving her attention.  This is almost of shot of her doing it though:  she scrunches her nose up and sniffs really loud through her nose--if we start to leave her, or if she's been in her crib too long, or tonight when Anne started to reach for a sweet potato on her high chair--it is hilariously cute!

Otherwise, we're pretty fine.  We started Anne on Zyrtec to see if it would help her itching, etc., so we'll keep our fingers crossed.  We also had a good family fast for her today--as better as she is in many ways, her skin is still giving us trouble.  The girls and I were able to enjoy a Young Ambassadors concert last night at our very own high school, Brian and I found a yummy little Peruvian restaurant here in town, and Brian's been eating up all of the election coverage all week like it's his personal Superbowl or something.  Happy Fall! Love, The Duncan's