Halloween 2012

apparently, there are many neighborhood halloween parades in nyc, park slope notwithstanding.  and, we learned from our neighbor that the parade normally comes right up our street. unfortunately, because of sandy, many halloween parades were canceled this year...including ours!  but, the parents who are a part of the park slope parents association (which we are a part of) have been writing over the past two days, providing input on how to not spoil halloween for our little ones.  so, it was decided that trick or treating would begin earlier in our 'hood -- around 3:30pm before it got dark.

siri and our babysitter, rachel handed out candy from 3:30-4, then jeff, siri and i went trick or treating for...TWO HOURS!  that's the longest she's been able to handle walking around with a bucket full of candy.  and, she filled that bucket to the brim.  note that claudia, one of the janitors at brooklyn college gave siri the trick or treating bucket.  siri has yet to properly thank her with a card, but we're working on it.

the mix of residential and commercial trick or treating was also fun for siri, and she didn't want to go home when the parental unit finally decided we'd had enough of the cold.  oh yes, did i mention the cold?  it was cold, like how halloween should be -- at least how it was from our childhood (minus the rain).  for once in the past 9 years, halloween actually felt like halloween.  

pre halloween party: dr. rosenberg and her patients

dr. rosenberg takes a quick break from surgery, eats a bagel and drinks some steamed milk

siri calls this her "scary face"

acting silly

halloween decos are fun!

starting halloween morning right with gf chocolate chip muffin baked by mommy and a nice glass of vino (note: actually empty wine glass that was never taken into the kitchen the night before)

siri wanted rectangles for eyes, a triangle for nose and a toothy smile on her jack o lantern

i obliged

we then roasted the pumpkin seeds and siri loved them!  she also insisted on cupping this bowl when i took the picture

posing with jack o lantern and a small box of nails (not sure why, but she insisted)

lit jack-o

vet and cat patient

dorky family costume

trick or treating

neighbors were much more creative than me

getting some candy all by herself

neighbor's decorations

daddy doggy snuck in a quick pic

gigantic spider

the ghost moves back and forth

grossness.  siri was asked to reach into the "poopy toilet" to get candy.  she refused.  the "poop" was chocolate water