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After 14 months of having Henry around, our ability to get out of the house in an organized and timely manner is still practically non-existent. We made two trips with arms- and strollers-full of stuff to bring to Cambridge for Halloween, and once Henry, Flash, and myself were buckled in, Dave made two more trips for stuff we forgot but remembered once we were in the car.

Halloween was a lot of fun. We stuffed Henry into his spider outfit and then spent two hours chasing after him as he ran up and down all of the streets. Lots of people ooh-ed and aah-ed over him, one person chastised me for not having my camera with which to document every moment of cuteness for posterity (To do that I'd have to have a camcorder constantly running because he's cute *all* the time. No really, he is. I'm not the only person who thinks that. My mom does too, and she's not biased at all.), and one little girl came up and gave him a big hug. I think she wanted to take him home with her. At one point Henry got down on his hands and knees to haul himself up over the curb and onto the sidewalk. He looked very much like a spider while he was doing that, and a small group of people stopped to watch him. When he finally stood up (as chance would have it, right in the middle of a wash of light from a nearby flood light), everbody started cheering and clapping. He looked vaguely shocked and confused, and then he just started smiling. It was like "A Star is Born". If he decides to try and make it on Broadway, I'll look back on that moment and won't be surprised at all.

The other member of our family who was a huge hit was Flash, who was dressed up as a lobster. All the kids loved her. Unfortunately (and not surprisingly), Flash was unimpressed with all of the scary monsters who were trying to pet her so we took her upstairs after about twenty minutes.

Perhaps the highlight of the evening was the thirteen or fourteen year old girl who looked at Dave's pi pumpkin and said "Hey, that's pi..." after which my mom and I freaked out because no one else had picked up on it. We both shouted "She got it! She got it! It's "pumpkin pi"!" The group of kids she was with started laughing. Her father stared at the pumpkin for a while and as the kids started drifting towards the next house he asked "Math joke?", looked at it again, nodded, then smiled and said "Happy Halloween".

I'll post pictures as soon as I get back up to Salem later this evening.