Halloween 2008

It's 9:45 pm on Halloween night. The kids are in bed. We turned off the porch lights to ward off the last of the teenage candy addicts. I just completed a "movie" of the pictures from the day using Picasa, but I was disappointed at how blurry the pictures turn out. So, I'll leave the "movie" on here for you to view, but I'll also add some of the "not blurry" pictures, too.

Here is how the afternoon and evening unfolded. Charl came home from work around 3 pm. We put the kids in the car at 4 pm and headed off to granny Louw's house. The Pews met us there around 5 pm. Andersen knocked on granny's red door and said "trick or treat". He spent all morning watching Halloween cartoons and he got very well schooled on the ins and outs of Halloween. After hanging out with cousins, we got back in the car and headed back home. When we got back at 6:15 pm the neighborhood kids were out in full force and Andersen couldn't wait to join them, despite the light rain. Somehow, I (katie) got nominated (by Andersen and Charl) to take the cute elephant around the neighborhood. Charl stayed home with Holly and handed out the treats. We went up and down 2 streets and it seemed like we were gone forever. Andersen would walk up the driveways saying "trick or treat" and then he'd say it again while knocking, but as soon as the door was answered he wouldn't say anything. If he knew the people he would invite himself in. He made his way into the Hoskins (his former nursery teacher) and left with a toy car. They loved his costume and they love him so he got the VIP treatment. When we got back home, we ate pizza (frozen from Target and it wasn't that great), but it was food. All in all, it was successful, however next year it is Charl's turn to walk the streets! (Good thing it was warmer than last year.) Enjoy the pictures.

This year Andersen was an elephant. He loves elephants, so we had to get this costume when we saw it at Costco. The size is for 2 -4 year olds...Anders is a short 2 year old and look at the floods! We just got him out of the car so he could go trick-or-treating at Granny's house.
Trick-or-Treating. He's thinking...Granny, where are you?
So, I got lazy with Holly this year. I put her in the dinosaur costume that Granny Annie made about 7 years ago for Rylan. Andersen wore this costume last year. It was a little big and she didn't really care for the headpiece when it was on her head.

Andersen posing with the Jack-O-Lantern in he pre- trick or treating Halloween outfit.
Holly posing for her first "pumpkin" picture. What a cutie!

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