Ready For Halloween

Home sick again today, so I had the pleasure of walking Greta to school in all of her finery. Yes, we finally found her the absolutely perfect costume - a giraffe. It's been her favorite animal for I don't know how many years and she is so thrilled with it that it came home clean (!) from school today so that it can be worn to ballet class tomorrow and out trick or treating on Sunday. Unbelievable.

Emery, well, he's always been a different story. He chose the most generic costume possible, a skeleton, as it was the least "fancy" option. Come this morning its fasteners were just too much to manage and he refused to wear it. Dan had a stroke of genius seeing his Barcelona jersey hanging to dry and I was thrilled not to have thrown away the socks 3 years ago when I decided he had outgrown them. He went as a Barcelona player; we made no comments regarding his long-standing allegiance to Herta. Different league, after all.


Coming home on a grey and rainy day with no World Series to watch, Emery requested a movie. As this involves pushing the furniture out of the way so that we can cuddle on the floor together, I of course said yes. We watched The Wizard of Oz for the first time for both of them. I remember being 6 when I first saw it, pulling the afghan up over my eyes, and being terrified all the same. Ja, Greta is 6, I know. We cuddled close and she claimed no fears. Both loved it. Both just went to bed, so we'll see...