The First Snow

Halloween 2008

This year Cook was Link from the Legend of Zelda. He had to "try on" his costume every day for a week or so before AND after Halloween just to be sure he'd do it right. As you can see, he has some serious skillz. Ama was extremely noncommittal about what she wanted to be, but finally settled on being a baby duck. She shed her shiny duck pants at some point in the evening, but was otherwise very quacky.

The weather was so nice for trick or treating, we didn't even need to wear jackets. Cook and Christian and Aria ran from house to house, and Ama had trouble keeping up with them, but she definitely got the hang of it. After we had trick or treated around our block, Ama turned to me and said, "Mom, I trick EVERY house!"

Smile Song

Ama singing a Little Einsteins song:

sing a smile song, everybody smiles,
sing all day long, I love it when you smile.

Making Sugar Skulls

We made mexican sugar skulls for the first time this year to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, and Cook turned into a sugar skull expert.

Here is an instructional video that he made showing the details of this fine kitchen art form. It was really fun to watch him get so into it.