Halloween 2026

Another Halloween is in the books. I wasn't sure if the big kids would go around again & Amelie almost didn't but they all three ended up trick-or-treating. Off they go! I said the neighbors might be more sympathetic to teenagers if they took the orange pumpkin buckets instead of the pillowcases they wanted to grab: 

Uncle Joe came over and walked around some with Sam & Leah & then helped me pass out candy & manage the dog.

Amelie started as the Corpse Bride, but was dissatisfied with her costume & changed at the very last minute to a witch (but she kept the veil/headdress.) 

Leah went as Pinkie Pie from My Little Ponies (Specifically the alternate dimension humanoid Pinkie Pie)

They walked through the park to meet up with her friend & Sam snapped this photo! The big kids were still working on their costumes when they left!

Her friend was Gummy the Alligator, which is also a character from My Little Ponies. 

Jim was a vampire. He is smiling all weird so that we see his fangs! One little kid asked if he was Kung Fu Panda

Wheeling and dealing: 

Jim brought home a cup-o-noodles and also an instant ramen packet (no potatoes or cans of soda this year, though). 

Some of us dressed up at work on Friday, but we didn't get a big group picture, unfortunately! I was a disco ball. One of my coworkers guessed 1) a brick wall, and then 2) a table (he had a tiled table that looked like that I guess! Hahaha!) 

Aunt Jenn was emotional baggage & we burned some of our emotional baggage that we'd given her throughout the day. (Ha!) 

The kids weren't allowed to wear costumes at school (and their last day before Halloween was Thursday anyway!) but Leah wore a spooky dress: 

Leah came out of her bedroom after bedtime complaining about being itchy all over, so we gave her some Benadryl. She must have accidentally had something with red dye. (Which I keep hoping she will grow out of!)

We didn't carve pumpkins until the morning of Halloween - from left to right: Leah (abstract, she titled it "psychological horror"), Mom, Amelie (vampy), Jim (plus color changing light), Sam. 

Here's the link to last year!