So, far behind: Halloween!
Yamaraashi-chan and Kouryou-chan for Halloween. Oh, hai. I forgot: what we did for Halloween. Omaha led us in a lovely Samhain ritual, and we had hamburgers before heading out.
Yamaraashi-chan's at that age where she'd rather go hang out with her friends at a party, so she went with another family and did the Haunted House thing down at the big mansion on the south side of Des Moines. She tried to go as Cthulhu and I think she did a pretty good job. We had fun making the tentacle thingy, and even more painting her hair green. Toward the end of the evening she wore it around her neck and looked more like someone from an ancient Tarzan film who'd recently hunted and eaten a Muppet. Even later into the evening, the face paint dried up and started to flake off and she looked like the survivor of the Los Angeles Volcano of 1997.
Kouryou-chan, Omaha and I hit the neighborhood up for sweets. She looked adorable in her kitty outfit, and people gave her a ton. So much, in fact, that she ended up dumping some in the pockets of my jacket so she'd have more room in her pumpkin. We walked all up and down the main drag, meeting lots of people, counting up the election signs. There was one guy with a fabulous layout: a John Deere tractor driven by a demon, zombies rising from the ground, vapor generator. Good fun. A couple of other very earnest displays.
Kouryou-chan had so much candy she went to bed with an aching tummy, and I had to wash Yamaraashi-chan's hair for her to get all of the green out of it. A good Halloween.