Halloween

Halloween fell on a Saturday AND there was a full moon and no fog AND Gangi was here, so it was a pretty special night all around -

Brennan wanted to be ready - it was his 2nd Halloween, after all, so he knew he needed some sort of disguise. We managed to convince him that he could do better than stealing my sunglasses. Thanks to a loan from Maine (the girl, not the state), Bren got to be a monkey. Of course, you could argue that he's kind of a monkey every day-

We had some other partners in crime -

Ian, the scary red dinosaur monster, and Liam, the scary orange...pumpkin. He was supposed to be a fireman, but had a change of heart at the 11th hour.

Bren enjoys taking small objects and putting them into containers. His favorite way to spend an afternoon is to tear toilet paper off the roll, walk around the toilet, lift the trash can lid, and throw it away - so taking candy from a basket and putting it in a bag was right up his street. Well, for 4 houses it was...

Luckily, there's plenty of other entertainment on Belvedere Street on Halloween. It really is amazing, the amount of time & effort they put into decorating their homes and handing out tons of candy, as well as simply making kids happy. One home featured "Madagascar" go-go dancers (last year, it was "Kung Foo Panda") - and Chubbles was transfixed by a saw-playing performance.

Here's the Scary Monster in the mist and the Crazy Monkey climbing Daddy -

And since I went to the bother of carving it (30 minutes before our Big Halloween Fun started), here's the damn pumpkin we went up to Healdsburg to get: