Halloween Eve

Footage from Halloween Eve (as Owen named the evening when he figured out trick or treating was to follow the next day).  Actually, we went trick or treating on Friday, as the town was 70% out of electricity on Monday.  In this clip, Asher and Owen ate a bunch of the freshly toasted pumpkin seeds, then proceeded to turn them into tiddlywinks and fodder for pouring in and out of stacks of cups they found in the cabinet (I wouldn't have oiled and salted them if I knew that was their destiny!).  http://vimeo.com/31937371

Halloween for us involves carving a pumpkin, putting on costumes and going trick or treating.  It's nice to meet the neighbors and have a momentary sense of community in a not-overly-social neighborhood.  It would be nice to have things to bring everyone out of their house more often...should think on that.  Anyway, Owen was in high gear to get on the road and trick or treat, and Asher figured it all out pretty fast.  They were an adorable pair with their yelled THANK YOU!!! at each house, and social little Asher happy to give smiles and giggles and say, "Happy How-een!" each time a door opened.  He just LOVES PEOPLE.  It's extraordinary.  Of course, this does not mean he would actually *wear* the Halloween costume I made him.  He was supposed to be a school bus (his favorite thing of all, excepting sugar in all forms).  He would not, no way, no how, put the bus on to trick or treat, but the next day of course wore it around proudly.  2 year olds!!  Owen wanted to be a pumpkin, so it was a pretty simple $10 costume for him!