Happy Halloween!

It was a busy Halloween month, as always. Here are a ton of photos that capture the fun.

William was really, really into Halloween bingo. 

Beatrice reading a Halloween book while "Nightmare Before Christmas" plays in the background

William watched a few minutes before declaring it "too scary."

Reading "The Five Little Pumpkins" to Sancho

Halloween store selfie

Beatrice as a ghost

 We took the kids to Underwood Family Farms to get pumpkins:

Beatrice pre-sketched her Halloween banner design at school so she was ready to go when she got home.

William was a T-rex.

Yep, more Halloween bingo

The very impressive haunted house at the elementary school Halloween fair

Carving pumpkins:

This year Arthur got to use a real knife (Beatrice declined and asked me to carve it for her).

Impersonating a T-rex at his preschool Halloween parade and party

Halloween parade

Then, at least, trick or treating:

Beatrice was a banshee.

Arthur was a skeleton.

 William reading Five Little Pumpkins to Sancho:

And dancing along with his beloved "dancing ghost," a desk decoration at Arthur's daycare:

Best of Fall 2016

A round-up of some of the best photos from this fall, in more or less random order.

Arthur on this way to school

William makes a dinosaur parade

Arthur fell asleep watching a movie.

Zac and I went to Seattle for Zoe and Jascha's wedding:

Seattle's lovely - and heavily walrus-themed - Arctic Club

We ate seafood for every meal.

Beatrice's doll, ready for Halloween

Beatrice's card for Arthur: "Love may be exasperating"...

... "But I still love you"

Beatrice and Arthur sitting and gossiping at the top of the monkey bars

We went to Boston, as well, to visit Aubrey and Melissa and see their new house:

Aubrey at Kowloon, a rather theatrical Chinese restaurant

Melissa and Aubrey in front of their new house 

The view from their back yard

The Whaling Museum in New Bedford

A Rhode Island specialty: coffee milk and a NY System hot dog

This picture from Arthur's daycare encapsulates him perfectly.

At the Big Bear Discovery Center:

William compromised my art direction here because he was too scared to stand up.