The McClelland Family

Hold the phone.

It’s December 8th and I still haven’t posted about Halloween.

Seriously, Kirsten.  Get your act together!

The truth is, I’ve actually had a Halloween post written since November 1st.  I just never got around to going through the photos, making my choices, and uploading them to the blog.

But now that I have a report card deadline looming on the near horizon, you’d be amazed at all the random things I’m getting done around here.  Because ANYTHING…cleaning out my purse, vacuuming the lampshades, organizing my sock drawer, furminating the dogs…ANYTHING is better than doing report cards.

So here’s that Halloween blogpost!

Another Halloween has come and gone…I can’t believe it was the girls’ 4th Halloween!  As 1-month-olds they wore brown fuzzy bear suits and we trick-or-treated at our next door neighbor’s house.  As 1-year-olds my parents came over and we went to a handful of houses in our neighborhood at 4 in the afternoon.  Last year, as 2-year-olds, we went to my parents’ neighborhood and the girls went down the street and back.  They kind of understood what was going on and they were happy to get candy, even though they had never really eaten any candy except for a few M&Ms here and there.

This year was different.  It’s like we’ve crossed the threshold from babyhood to “kidhood” and they TOTALLY got it.  They were excited to dress up, carry their pumpkin buckets, walk up to strangers’ doors all by themselves while Kevin and I watched from the sidewalk, ring the bells (slight problem there…they both wanted to ring each bell, so we were the annoying “repeat ringers”), and say, “Trick or Treat” and “Thank you, Happy Halloween!”  Then they would turn to us with the biggest smiles on their faces.  Seriously, pure joy.  They would RUN back to the sidewalk shouting, “Let’s do it again!  Again!” and race to the next house.  We left our house at 6, just as it started to get dark out, and spent about 30 minutes going around our neighborhood.  At every house Mary and Lila got loads of compliments on their adorable Thing 1 and Thing 2 costumes, and then people peered out to the sidewalk and saw me in my Cat in the Hat costume and we got another round of compliments.  Poor Kevin never got a chance to change out of his work clothes so he told Mary and Lila that he was dressed as a “Corporate Stiff” which, to our amusement, Mary repeated a few times.  We came home in time to eat dinner and M&L helped us answer the door and hand out candy.  All in all, a perfect Halloween.