Halloween

Halloween got kind of messed up this year (sort of like last year after the blizzard)! We had a hurricane two days earlier that knocked down some trees and power lines in town. We were totally fine but our town postponed trick-or-treating from Wednesday to Sunday.

Wednesday night was pretty nice out and our road was fine, so I took Jane to a few neighbors' homes anyway. Malcolm decided he wouldn't thank our neighbors, so he stayed at home.

She did well walking around and saying "trick-or-treat" and "thank you." She showed Malcolm all her treats when she got home, and shared a little with him. (Yes, that's an apple, and no, there were no razor blades inside it!)

Our plan was to go with some friends in a different neighborhood with less traffic on the correct trick-or-treat day. The kids decided to change from Spider-Man back to a bunny, his costume from two years ago, and from a panda to Cinderella. I ran out and bought some cheap sparkly shoes and some Cinderella pjs to wear under her dress since it was supposed to be cold out. Here's Jane modeling her outfit. The bun was very important to her!

But then on Sunday Jane came down with a fever. She even fell asleep on the couch.

I had to call off our trick-or-treating outing with friends. When she woke up, they dressed up and trick-or-treated at home, just like last year. (I didn't bother with the right undershirt or doing her hair because she was so exhausted!)

Look at the poor thing eating her candy!

I'm not sure what Westie was dressing up as...