Happy Halloween!

Given that today's weather (100% chance of rain, from 6 a.m.-10 p.m.) is likely to dampen tonight's trick-or-treat action, I'm thrilled that the girls and I got to have a little pre-Halloween fun yesterday.

After the impromptu costume photo shoot, we scooted off to the Milford Library Halloween celebration. Though the gets were a lil lame (bookmarks and animal crackers), the costumes and crafts were enjoyed by all.  

(It's written all over Maizey's face, no?)

Jack was there. Reprise costume of 2012...

 And Lucy. 

And pal Sam.

My glue-stick-lovin' gal got it on with some holiday crafting...

 And perfected the trunk-hold-back.

  

Then, insisted on getting her photo taken with the Madagascar cast.

Melvin.

And Gloria. (Alex ran away when we tried for a shot with him.)

"Mom, she's awake! She's awake!"

 Love these wild ones.

Pre-Hallow Fun

Though we've had spiders, pumpkins and skeletons hanging around for weeks, we finally got into true Halloween form yesterday.

The weather dampened my hopes of an outdoor pumpkin carving session, but the addition of Will made up for the indoor-ness of the activity.

As expected, interest in the activity lasted about 10 minutes. I then sat sweating, and carving, in the middle of old Wall Street Journals and pumpkin guts, for another 45. Alone. 

Well, to be fair, they watched.

In the late afternoon, after celebrating our my pumpkin creations, we suited up for a reprise of last year's Milford Boo Bash. 

 AKA - a Dad/daughter(s) themed costume.

Elephant.

Tiger.

And zookeeper. Dad was thrilled.

 Sadly, it rained on the parade.

 Literally. And we didn't make it further than Marc and Jaclyn's at the end of our road.

Happily though,

there was plenty of entertainment in-house.

Hard to believe this was only two years ago...

They multiplied like mogwai and water.

Didn't get enough of the elephant and the tiger?
Don't fret - there are two more costume-photo-ops ahead.