Once Emma started seeing the Halloween decorations going up, the daily question became, “Is it Halloween time yet?” She was so excited to be a purple dragon with a purple pumpkin to get a bunch of candy in. I’ll have to sneak a group shot from Amanda, but we had Brad as Darth Vader, Gary as the Hulk, and Amanda as a construction worker. They ran around with the kids while I stayed with Jake and handed out candy. This was the first year I’ve actually had that role… at my parents we would only get about 3 trick or treaters, and every other year, Brad and I just ran around with Emma. It was pretty fun to see all the fun kid costumes and all their excited faces!
I had originally planned to have Jake be The Hulk, seeing as he is humongous, but couldn’t find just a simple green pair of jammies… So that night, I grabbed some red jammies and drew on his face with eye liner. Cutest little devil I ever did see!
These pictures of these kids (mine included) are priceless. Jake is the cutest DEBIL (that’s what Leslea Rae called Juke when I visited them in New York for Paul’s graduation from Columbia. If she left her blanket on the floor Juke would go as fast as he could to get to the blanket. Leslea would notice immediately and say “You little DEBIL you”!! Then Jukie (sometimes a pet name for him) would grin all over himself!!!