Halloween Already?

Halloween Parade- 2006

New album posted above.....

The Halloween celebrations seem to start earlier and earlier. Each year the Kotler-Weiss clan host a get together in conjunction with the Little Five Points Halloween Festival. It was on the 21st this year which makes no sense to me but was a great chance to do a trial run on the costumes-- we went with the "home made" variety this year with a few store-bought accessories. Leah told me today that she plans on getting married in her fairy outfit. I'l be sure to remind her of that in a decade or two. Sydney followed that one up by remind me that she plans to be a boy when she grows up. Nod and smile, that's all I can do!

This parade, by the way, is definately rated PG-13, at a minimum. Before you go calling DFACS, you should know that there were plenty of kids and they throw candy and all that good stuff. Ironically, the thing that scared Sydney the most was not the freak shows marching down Euclid Avenue, but rather our dear friend, six-year old Noah Trugman dressed as Darth Vader. Sydney was absolutely hysterical when we arrived at the party and was begging to go home lnog before the parade began. After a 30 minute melt-down she simply said "I'm ok now. I was freaked out but now I'm ok." Noah apologized profusely, sweet thing. Then it was one sugar loaded afternoon of fun! I'll upload a few viedos of Sydney rocking out to some of the floats that went past. And they bothed loved the marching bands. Even thre freakiest people were ok by them as long as they put candy in their bags.

Friday night was tot shabbot again-- I took the girls along with theKotler/Weiss crew and then we all met Scott for dinner at Penang. They really enjoy singing the songs and seeing the other children and this time they also got to light the shabbas candles (with adult supervision). Somehow Nathan managed to sustain another head injury while there. He also had a rock fall on his head on Rosh Hashanah. They're going to think someone is fishing for a lawsuit!! He was ok, thankfully, but it looked scary since it was a head wound.

The weekend fun continued-- we saw Lindsay & Derik today, along with Alan & Min ---it had been over a year since we saw them-- just shortly after Lindsay's wedding!

They invited us over for bruch and it was fantastic just to hang out and catch up. This was our first time seeing their home (adorable!) and I'm sure the girls seemed so much bigger than last time we all got together. The highlight for the kids, I belive was "playing rock band" with Lindsay.

Funny video below.

Scott has to go to Philadelphia for work for a few days. It's rare that he travels but it will be a nice change of pace for him. Tonight we were invited to Ginny & Ellis' to meet their friends and do some pumpkin carving. There were five girls ages 2-5 and it was hysterial. Alison, Ella, Chloe, Leah & Sydney all running around like crazy. They did manage to stop to inhale a piece of pizza and then it ws back to mayhem. As a result the grown ups did like 95% of the work carving. As you can see the results were impressive-- ours are the 2 tiny ones on the end. My mom had bought the girls' those pumpkins a week or so ago. I figured it couldn't hurt to turn them in to a jack-o'lantern. If you can't tell the 2nd from the right is a ghost. It was hard to do a pattern like that on such a small pumpkin.

It's getting really late. If I'm going to play single parent the next few days I better get some sleep.

Meanwhile my Mom and Jennifer are getting ready to hit the road for Houston-- won't see them til nearly mid November! Best of luck at the shows!

By the way it is 10:30 at night, Scott is in Philly for work, and I just heard little footsteps running around-- it was Leah trying to get a book. nice. Sydney had already gotten a few for herself and was laying backwards in bed reading Dr. Seuss.