November 1st, 2009
Quiet Halloween this year. Tim was sick, so we lay low, stayed in, carved a tiny ornamental pumpkin into a cheery pumpkin face (which, after an hour, surprisingly—but appropriately—started drooling white wax).
We read Edgar Allen Poe by candelight, with interruptions by one trick-or-treater (which thrilled us—one more than we’ve gotten in past years) and our neighbor, dressed as a satyr, horned and bare-chested with hairy goat-leg pants (on his way to a party, checking to make sure his bare belly was “not too much?”). Watched some “scary” old stuff on Youtube, thoroughly enjoying “Teenagers from Outer Space” and “The Cobweb Hotel.”
All in all, a frightfully lovely night.
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Tags: candle, halloween, jack-o-lantern, pumpkin
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November 2nd, 2008
Just thought I’d do a visual documentation here of my favorite of Reeve’s Halloween costumes. He was 3 and hugely in love with airplanes. The only thing he wanted to be for Halloween that year—nothing else could possibly work—was the Concorde. The airplane. As in British Airways. As in super-fast and super-sleek.
So, since I don’t really sew and didn’t want the mess of papier maché, Reeve was transformed into a poster paper-clad version of that supersonic flying machine. Photo at right.
That Halloween night, he flew beautifully from house to house, trick or treating with the kids from the apartment downstairs. . . until it began to rain—thereby ending any possibility of transcontinental flight.
Wishing you and yours a happy, safe, and dry Halloween!
Tags: concorde, costume, halloween, poster paper, reeve
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