Halloween is my favorite holiday. It’s all about the COSTUMES. Last year I pulled together a group of friends to go as characters from Alice in Wonderland. After making five of the costumes, I succumbed to the flu and had to stay home. This year is J’s first Halloween. Such an auspicious event has to be perfect. What is the perfect costume for an infant? Something unique, but recognizable. Something creative, but relatively easy since I have, oh, zero time to make it. Something literary, since we love us some books. Should we go as a set, with the whole family involved? Originally we had planned to make Ryan the Man in the Yellow Hat and the baby would be George the Monkey, but that didn’t leave me any character. Finally I whittled it down to the Very Hungry Caterpillar, and Ryan and I would wear pictures of all the food the caterpillar eats. I finally decided on Hedwig, Harry Potter’s snowy owl. Ryan and I are Harry and Ginny, but I didn’t quite finish our costumes or get around to dying my hair orange. She makes the cutest snowy owl you ever did see. Today we are going to the Pumpkin Bash at the zoo and trick or treating at the merchants event in our little neighborhood. Maybe tonight I’ll have a free moment to carve a pumpkin.

How do you celebrate Halloween? What are you, or your kids, dressing as? What’s your favorite type of Halloween candy?