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Halloween was great fun this year.  I was still on vacation because I extended my time off from the prior week when we were in Nashville.  (We were visiting J.D. and Shana and their new baby, Noah there, and we also took a quick roadtrip up to Louisville to visit Sharon’s Aunt and some of her cousins and their families.)

The day started at 9:00 a.m. at Jay’s preschool.  We dropped Jay off in his costume and the whole preschool class did a mini-parade around the school grounds.  Then they did a little Halloween singing performance.  It was something watching 20 preschoolers singing the “Bones Song” (a variation on ‘Dem Bones, but covering the scientific names of virtually every bone in the human body!), and most of them (including Jay) knowing almost all the words.  Yes even the phalanges were covered, and I’m not even sure how to spell that one!

Later in the day, Jay went to his first capoeira class at a local performing arts studio.  Apparently he’s a natural … was able to mimic the movements of his teacher nearly perfectly!  Lucy stayed with me and I finished carving jack-o-lanterns while she ate Cheerios and attempted to eat a book.

When Sharon and Jay returned, we quickly got the kids in their costumes (Jay a wizard and Lucy a giraffe that some of you may recognize from when Jay was 8 months old) and headed to the corner of Versailles and Lincoln Aves., where tons of the local preschoolers meet for an early trick-or-treat run, also known as the “Versailles parade.”  The candy haul from that expedition alone was outrageous!

Then we all headed home and Sharon and I got in our costumes (witch and pirate!), and I set up the outside decorations. We did a “tiki” Halloween this year, including an inflatable palm tree, some crabs in nets, tiki torches and a skeleton with a grass skirt.  Sharon had carved a tiki mask into one of the jack-o-lanterns to complete the effect.  We also had a few random scary things from prior Halloweens (tombstones, fog machine, bat, spiders, etc.)  Our friends, Harry and Natasha, and their 2.5 kids (Owen, Preston and the-one-on-the-way), came over, and so did Granny Pam, Grandpa Sam, and Grandma Becky.  Grandpa Dean had to stay home and defend his home from the hordes of kids on the West End of Alameda!

After a quick dinner supplied by Granny Pam, the trick-or-treating party left to scour Johnson Avenue.  Jay, Lucy and Owen were joined by Sharon, Grandma Becky, Grandpa Sam and Natasha and came away with an even bigger haul of candy.  Many neighgors gave Jay extra because of Lucy … just what we wanted!  Harry and I attempted to scare children with fog blasts, and hung out with Granny Pam and Preston.

Then we all fell down in an exhausted heap and looked through the spoils of the evening.  I did have one little adventure later on when I scared some teenagers away from the house as they approached and tried to steal our skeleton … grrr!

Another update coming soon!