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This afternoon while most of the Boston area is making their way towards Salem's Halloween celebrations, we will be driving south on 128, laughing and pointing at all the people heading north who are stuck in traffic. We decided to forgo Salem's big night so we could spend the evening handing out candy at my parent's house. They live on a street that has lots of kids, and where pretty much everyone knows each other, so I thought we could take Henry to a few houses then just let him walk up and down the street, killing everyone with his cuteness.

We carved five pumpkins last night. It was quite the little marathon. Dave had been looking forward to carving pi into his pumpkin (Pumpkin pi, get it? Ha! He's so clever.) so that was the first thing he did. After that he suffered from a mild case of pumpkin-carver's block and had to take a break. We tried getting Henry to sit still for "It's the Great Pupmkin, Charlie Brown" but he was so not interested. The little bit we watched inspired me to try and attempt a Charlie Brown pumpkin. Year after year poor Chuck is done wrong by Lucy and Violet when they use his head to design their pumpkin that I thought perhaps a little redemption was in order.

I'm a little bummed about not being in Lewisburg for Halloween. I love getting our house decked out with candles in the yard and ghosts in the trees and all of that fun stuff. All of the trees we've taken out over the last three years really made us a lot more visible and a lot less spooky-looking (the bad kind of spooky) and last year we had more kids stop by than in previous years. I'm thinking of going to the Halloween store tomorrow or Thursday to see if we can't get a fog machine on sale for next year. Yes, the planning and day-dreaming does start one year in advance. Sad, isn't it?

Happy Halloween!