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Halloween… a time for costumes and candy. Also a time for going outside in freezing wind and tramping from door to door like oddly-dressed beggars. Every time a car passed us Sydney pretended to be scared, screaming “monster!” and clutching me or her Dad hard. But it was fun.<\/p>\n
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At the dollar store, Sydney picked out the witch hat herself. Kim created the rest of the costume from scratch, modeling it loosely on the “Scary Godmother” TV show (based on a comic book by Jill Thompson) that Sydney’s a fan of.<\/p>\n
Just before we went out trick or treating, we were hanging out inside our door – where we had, of course, a large basket full of candy for trick or treaters. Sydney immediately knelt down next to the basket and began systematically transferring candy bars, one by one, into her own stash. She definitely “gets” Halloween a lot more now than she did a year ago.<\/p>\n
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Here’s a photo Jenn Lee<\/a> took when we dropped by her house. (Also living there: Kip<\/a>, Dylan<\/a>, and Anne). Note the super-cool wings Kim made by cutting up a $1 plastic spiderweb and gluing it onto felt.<\/p>\n (You can see more photos of our visit to Jenn’s household on Jenn’s Flckr page<\/a>).<\/p>\n Maddox is wearing a hand-me-down cavegirl outfit that Sydney wore two years ago. Maddox hasn’t a clue what’s going on, but as usually she’s cheerful about the bewildering things the grown-ups make her do.<\/p>\n But here’s a cool new development: Maddox is now walking on her own, without touching anything. She can walk across a room without falling – it’s really cool. Unfortunately, this means that she’s begun the inevitable journey from being “the easy one to babysit” to being “oh, hell, where did Maddox get to?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Halloween… a time for costumes and candy. Also a time for going outside in freezing wind and tramping from door to door like oddly-dressed beggars. Every time a car passed us Sydney pretended to be scared, screaming “monster!” and clutching … Continue reading ![\"Cavegirl](\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/halloween2006_02.jpg\")
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