The cancer-free edition

This posting is guaranteed one hundred percent cancer-free, because sometimes you just have to step back, have some fun and eat a little candy already.

Besides, look how stinking’ cute these boys are. Braedan dressed as the Tin Man for Storybook Character Day at school. The kids in his class were wowed with his homemade costume constructed from a lawn bag, plastic funnel cap, and air dryer vents all spray painted silver. Voila:

They marched through the gym where the whole school gathered to hear the teachers, dressed in matching Dr. Suess hats, recite a group rendition of Green Eggs and Ham. The kids all proudly waved their books in the air that matched their character’s costume. It was really something.

Then Friday night, we messed up our perfectly clean house by carving pumpkins. Austin took literally every piece of silverware out of the drawers for this actviity and they both dragged “pumpkin goo” around the house on their socks but it was well worth it.

Tonight we’ll trick or treat for the last time on this block (weather permitting, please!). We considered heading over to Wellington because there is a spectacular Halloween display in a yard across the street from us with lights and music and all sorts of flying ghosts and enormous spiders controlled remotely by computer, but Mark thoughtfully pointed out that we should really give out candy at the house in which we currently live. And he’s right, of course, so home it is. Now if only I could get Breadan to wear his very original Tin Man costume instead of his Super-Man pajamas. I can’t believe I’ve already passed the years when I have any say in what they wear!

And to top off the cancer-free weekend, we get an extra hour of sleep tonight! Not bad. Not bad at all.