Halloween went well - the kids had a lot of fun at their party, and then got to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters at our house (a first for them - I think they may have had just as much or even more fun handing out candy then they did being at the party or trick-or-treating themselves). This was the first year that we didn't go trick or treating, mostly because we had the party to go to instead.

In the past we've bought the candy off the kids at the end of the night so that they wouldn't get sick from eating it all, and now that we are off sugar (as a family), there's really no reason to go trick-or-treating for them, except that they still may find it fun to do and probably would want the money anyway. Their aunt Jessica came up today with their cousin Caleb, aka Ace - he's walking/running a lot now (18 mo old) and is a pretty even-tempered, happy boy. Jessica gave the kids each a bag of candy, so that's what they gave out to trick-or-treaters tonight.

N was a werewolf - H made a great costume for him, with the fur coming out of rips in his clothes and the ears coming out of the top of his baseball cap. We glued fur to his face and used stage makeup and he had claws on his feet and hands.

M was going to be a cyborg, but after a trial run at a library Halloween event he discovered that all the metal was too uncomfortable, so today he changed to Aragorn - with his long hair he looked pretty sharp with a green cloak and leg and arm wrappings. I put "stubble" on his chin and cheeks with makeup - looked good.

S was vampirella, with a black and white-striped wig, red dress, and white face makeup with dark circles under her eyes and grey, hollow cheeks. She looked pretty cute.

H had her second full weekend of improv classes up in Vancouver - last weekend she had a minor fender-bender which busted one of our headlights. She said when she was exchanging insurance info the other party and witness were dumbfounded when she asked what the insurance company was. Turns out that in Canada everyone has the same vehicle insurance company! Anyway, her classes are going well and there were no accidents today.

School is keeping me really busy, I have several due dates creeping up on me and still feel like I'm treading water in very large waves.

Saw "Saw" last night - interesting movie premise-wise, but suffered from overacting by Elwis and a bad montage, too many flashbacks and boggy third act: C-