Loot

Finally the actual event arrived. Trick-or-treat time!! This year we were sad to miss Aislinn, Rob, and Tasha. I was unable to coordinate successfully in time, and given the lack of options in the apartment building, we decided to head out with the Austin family in Reading.

Seriously, let me tell you, this town knows how to do Halloween!!! Houses were decorated to he nines with music, fog, and costumes all around. What fun!

Before we headed out:


The first house:



Loot!

Pants on your head

And a few toys on the ground.



Vivie found this so funny ...


it delayed our getting out the for for Halloween by at least 15 minutes.

Chase and Connor visit!

We are so excited to have Katie and Jon moving back to Boston!! This weekend they were up to scope out preschools and apartments. We spent a bit of Saturday with them. We missed pics of the hayride at Wilson farm, but got some dress-up pics at home. Unfortunately, none of the nearby towns were trick-or-treating Saturday night, so the kids had to make due with trick-or-treating down at the local package store, where Daddy and Jon grabbed a growler while protected by a tough cowboy and an alligator. You need your posse on such adventures.



Later Pip and Vivie were very excited to get a chance to hold Connor. Awhhh!!!

They All Asked For You

Vivie has a variety of dance moves she uses in the car. The hip twist, the foot kick, the shoulder sway. Here is the tried and true head-bop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1V_rWlN2SM

Mom's Group Halloween

It's Halloween!!

Time for the Mom's group part at Amy's house. This time we invited the Dad's and got a solid turnout.

Pip continues to dislike costume headgear, despite consistently selecting costues that have them. Phil did his part to relieve Pip of the offending feature. Here he is taking a walk with a cuddly cow.


We are a long way from Rugby weekends aren't we?


Cat and Cow.


Here's the whole Mom's group crew! Look how we've grown!

Vive got her chance to whack the pinata ... watch out Mommy!

Magic Face-Paint Party

This weekend a friend from work celebrated the first birthday of her son, Dhruv, with a wild party! Looking back it was certainly unnecessary to consider bringing toys to amuse the kids. In addition to lots of co-workers and other adults, there were plenty of happy, spirited kids to keep P&V busy. They were off and running from 4 when we arrived to 9 when we left!!

Pip got his first full face painting ... a dragon breathing fire through its nose!


He breathed fire all over the party and even got Vivie into breathing a little fire of her own (although she refused a face-painting of her own).


Pip found a bossom buddy with his Zebra friend, Rishy. Peas in pods. Pip loved Rishy so much he refused to leave his side during the whole party and when it was finally time to leave, we had to leave at the exact same time, get in our cars at the exact same time, and pull out of the parking lot simultaneously.


There was even a magic show complete with a REAL bunny and a REAL bird!! Wowie! I regretably missed the opportunity to snap pictures of Phil's participatory portion of the show, in which he donned and apron and did a little dance. Yes, that's true.

Vivie and Phil found some very cool monster mouths.

ARC-170 Starfighter

I had nothing to do with this. Really.... it was Nat's idea. Although I'll admit that I had a ton of fun "helping" Pip put it together. The mechanism to open up the wings into attack formation is quite impressive. There's a worm gear and rubber bands. I'm convinced that Toy Engineer at Lego would be the dream job. That's got to be a life position....who would leave or retire?

The starfighter has 396 pieces and was completed successfully. Amazingly, it is still completely intact after 36 hours. Pip's favorite thing to do is fly around and launch two photon torpedos out of the bottom at unsuspecting targets.