Costumes

This year, Vincent is a bat

and Eddie is Batman. (Blue Batman, to be specific; we have two Duplo Batmans, one black and one blue, and he wanted to be the blue one.)

There was some trick or treating in Eddie's school in the afternoon, after school let out, and then we went trick or treating after dark here in our neighborhood. There were some really spooky houses (with fog machines, scary sounds, moving automata, the works) which we skipped, and a lot of less-spooky houses giving out candy. We just went two blocks in each direction. It was chilly but not too cold—yesterday's snow has mostly melted, and tomorrow is supposed to be warm.

Skeleton story

Eddie brought home this picture from school and wrote the words at home. He was spelling the words out phonetically. It reads "I am Eddie Skeleton and I know somebody named Eddie who says he knows somebody who is called Mama AND he loves Mama."