A New Kind of Halloween
In those years before Sophie, Halloween meant grown-up parties with lots of naughty snacks and drinks, hilarious costumes, and carousing ’til the wee hours.
Now, Halloween means child-appropriate snacks, cute pint-sized costumes, and lots of photo ops. As if to cement the dramatic change from pre-baby to post-baby Halloweens, our annual American Women’s Club adults-only Halloween party was cancelled this year at the last minute. Not necessarily a bad thing, since it would have required me to dress up as one of the Spice Girls (don’t ask…..!)
While we do have a nice travel-related story in the works for you, I first will share our sweet photos of Halloween-At-Jennifer’s-Decidedly-Untravelly-Friday-Baby-Group…
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This mask scared the heck out of Sophie (she would start screaming if I put it on) so my costume was effectively “a tired mom who wears black”.
The costume-of-the-day award goes to baby Justus:
Milla (our neighbor to the west) is a cute witch:
While the “other” Sophie practices her yoga and meditation techniques:
Kara flaunts her poodle skirt:
Baby Louisa, Fay, & Lisa show that witches, princesses, and hippies really can get along:
Our easterly neighbor Julia really likes Halloween! (she’s 3 months old now)
Claudia & Elizabeth trade witches-brew recipes…
Our brave lion, Emily, prefers stalking her prey by bobby car…
And here are all the goodies! (mostly ate by us moms…)
November 4th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
adorable! but why is the giant skunk eating that baby?
November 5th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Where’s the Sophster??? We expected her wearing a cute pumpkin costume or somethnig similar… or did she go on strike because of your leopard mask?
November 5th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Where are cute pics of Sophie?????
November 12th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
The kids are SOOOO cute in their little costumes! You know, I once had to dress up as sporty spice for Halloween and of course somebody posted pictures of it in the Internet too…