Can't believe we are in to November already. Life has been busy, busy. There have been bags of leaves to rake. Well I rake. Brian has a leaf blower that he likes to use. Of course, the biggest thing on everyone's mind now is H1N1. The boys are supposed to get their shots November 16th, but the school sent home a notice on Friday that there has been one case of H1N1 at the school already, so Joce is going to try to get them done earlier. Which sounds like a good idea, except that clinics have been cancelled and postponed due to lack of vaccine. Aaron was sick a couple of days last week with sore throat, aches and fever. But it was short lived, so we're not sure if it was just regular flu or not. Joce felt miserable for a day or so also, but she kept going for the most part. However, life goes on and Halloween was in the air!
Aaron had a few friends in for the afternoon to play video games. Joce made pizza for them for supper, then it was on with the costumes and off for trick or treating. Joce and Brian and Mocha went also. I was left to hand out treats. We only had 20 to 25 visitors.
Aaron in costume. Not sure what he was, some gruesome , ghostly monster I think.
The boys carved their pumpkins. They got pictures from the internet and traces them onto their pumpkins and then carved them. Greg's was a regular face, and Aaron carved a pokemon face on his. They did great jobs and were both very proud of their work.
Aaron put a chair on the front steps and posed as a dummy, hoping for someone to come along so he could scare them.
Greg was some kind of action figure, Transformer maybe. He looked really cute whatever he was.
This is a group photo just before they left to go trick or treating. Left to right - Aaron, the big orange person is Tim. His father carved the cheese slice out of foam and then painted it orange. It was really cute. The only problem was that it was 18C , a very warm evening, and Tim was roasting inside his costume. Nahum is in the Mario costume. Greg in front of Nahum and last , but not least, is MacLean.
They all came home with pillowcases full of treats. They covered 4 or 5 streets in about 2 hours, so they were tired when they got back , but they had a great time.
Jocelyn is anxious to get all the Halloween decorations down so she can start with the Christmas ones, but she had to take Greg to a birthday party this afternoon, so it will be delayed until tomorrow.
