This year we put a little more energy into the outside decoration - our thinking is to add one or two things a year until it becomes an issue with storage or setup/take down. Last year we hung purple lights on our front-yard tree, put out a few plastic pumpkins and hung a number of cob webs in the front yard tree and on the brick facade of our porch. This year we tripled the number of lights, tripled the amount of cob webs, added two more pumpkins, a strobe light, purple bulbs in all outdoor lights/lamps, made a ghost from a sheet, a monster thing in the bushes, a fog machine and a hidden portable ipod player looping Halloween noises. It actually turned out great - so much so that we would get compliments at the door by trick or treaters and even had an entire (at least 12 people) Indian family take family pictures in front of our purple lit tree (weird we know).
Miles had three costumes this year. We posted about the garden gnome and organ grinder monkey. For Halloween night, Miles went as a cowboy. Aunt Fran gave Lina a cowboy shirt for her baby shower - and Miles is just now big enough to wear it. Its a killer shirt; the envy of his father. We all went out around 6PM to four houses (our immediate neighbors) to give Miles a little intro into the holiday. He was great! He'd walk-up, ring the door bell (if he could reach) then, after the door was answered, would take his one or two candies, drop them in his Elmo pale and say "Bye".
Kevin and Jeannie (Neenee) gave us a horse head on a stick (sure it has a name) which Miles happily walked with to every house. The cowboy hat, well - it wasn't on but for 2 seconds before landing in a puddle at the end of our driveway.
It was a great evening.
Friday Miles had a Halloween party at his Day Care. The kids, both current and recent grads, all dressed up. It was fun to watch all the kids play together and was a great opportunity to meet some parents.
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