Halloween

We had an awesome Halloween!  Jordan was a very committed Batman, and zoomed ahead at every opportunity, perhaps in order to properly show off his cape.

Aaron, who if you remember last year was terrified of all masks and costumes, declared this year that he is a Big Kid Now and the costumes are only people inside and he would not be scared.  And indeed he had a blast.  The only scary things were the occasional fog machines, which had the same effect on him as geysers.

Sam was a penguin.  One person said "Hey, Batman and the Penguin," and I had to admit that would have been a great idea but in this case it was coincidence.  Sam was not a scary-villain kind of penguin; he flapped his little wings and said "Glub Glub" in a very unintimidating way.

We tried to make Phil into an armadillo.  (Armaphillo.)

The shield was more properly borne by Harry, a gladiator.

Here's the crew in various states of action.

And here's the post-trick-or-treating action.  We let them gorge, and then now that they're in bed I will hide the rest.  Last year they never asked about the remainder, and we put it in a box, and what do you know, it was what we gave away this year.  Dale tested for freshness and there was no discernible difference.