Frightful!!

If you want to witness a scary Halloween, try a 3 month old with an ear infection! Poor Haley got her second ear infection, following a snotty week for all four of us, right on the eve of fright-night. We knew something was up when we went to the Courser Farm in Warner to view the hundreds of pumpkins they have lit up in the farm fields (very cool) and she cried the whole time we were there.... and then escalated to dead-out shrieks the whole 30 minute car ride home (not cool). Poor little Haley-doo. She has not been a happy girl. Her doctors are already starting to talk about tubes and have lined us up to talk with an ear specialist soon. Otherwise, as the doctor who saw her this weekend said, "it's going to be a long winter..."

Courser Farm pumpkins

Big Bad Brown Bear

A few doses of Amoxicillian later, and the four of us we were ready to hit the streets for Halloween. Aiden and Andy ran in a one-mile "Monster Dash" in the morning (costumes optional) and then we headed over to one a friend's house in the afternoon for some pre-trick-or-treating festivities. Our little Giants player got plenty of sideways glances here in the land of the Patriots, but he hardly noticed. It's hard to notice much when you're hopped up on skittles and blow-pops. Haley was a brown bear (indoors) and a leopard (outdoors)... it was freezing out so we had to keep her in a toasty faux-fur bunting while we wandered through the spooky corn maze and went door to door around New London. I went as a poacher's wife (lots of various faux-animal-furs) and Andy as Ash from Army of Darkness... gratefully (I think) there are no photos of either of our costumes!! There is one of Andy partially garbed in his costume and partially in mine, however... enjoy that one! Happy Halloween!

Aiden and John trick or treating

In the corn maze

Skeptical leopard

Aiden and some of his buds

Classic

Windy Hill Halloween