Happy Halloween!

In honor of Halloween, I will post a photo of Anna's prize pumpkin, which she named Herbert.  We picked him out on our recent pumpkin wagon ride for "Me and You Day."

I hope all of you readers have a fabulous and spooky Halloween and enjoy trick-or-treating with your kiddos tonight!  Be safe and have fun.  And if some evil person out there decides to be the "candy police" for your kid (see yesterday's post)....tell them exactly what you think!

The Candy Police?

I am now interrupting the regularly scheduled post I planned to write to bring you some Halloween-themed ridiculousness that I just encountered online.

Picture it: Halloween night.  Adorable children are in their costumes, gleefully skipping from house to house saying, "Trick or Treat!" and filling their baskets with yummy candy. Except, when they say "Trick or Treat," they don't actually expect a trick.  Particularly not as nasty a "trick" as this one employed by a heartless woman in North Dakota.

Photo from www.today.com

That's right, folks, some wonderful lady decided to help kids celebrate Halloween by telling them they're fat.

A nasty trick, indeed.

Playground Life Lessons

They spend a ton of time together.  They have a great time. They like to do many of the same things.  But sometimes, they squabble over the way those things should be done. Sometimes, they just don’t want to share. Sometimes, they want to be alone.  Always, they eventually make up and start getting along again.

Are they an old married couple, you may ask?  Actually, they are toddler buddies.  But we old married couples could learn a lot from them.

Mayhem at the park, Nov. 2011

Friday Fun: More Halloween Pics!

Happy Friday!  I wrote our Halloween Recap a few days ago, but at the time, I only had the so-so pics from my iPhone camera.  Fortunately, Jacobi's Grammie ("NeNe") took some photos with her awesome real camera, and they're too cute not to share. So here are some more photos from our fun trick-or-treating experience for today's Friday Fun.  Enjoy!

While Anna & Izzy are vying to be 1st, Jacobi swoops in!

Halloween Recap

Good morning!  Who's tired from a night full of canvassing neighborhoods with adorable costumed kids in tow?  I know I am.

But it's worth it for the glee on little faces as they yell "trick-or-treat!" and the joy in their steps as they carry plastic orange pumpkin buckets full of candy. Anna (aka Ord the dragon) had a blast trick-or-treating with her friends Jacobi (aka Curious George) and Izzy B (aka The Princess of Color and Everything).

"Hurry up so I can have my candy!"

Happy Halloween!

Just wanted to wish everyone a SAFE and FUN Halloween!  Enjoy trick-or-treating with your kiddos! (And perhaps enjoy some of their candy yourself....did I say that?!)

If you have great Halloween costume pics of your kids that you'd like to show off on the blog, please send them to us at mylifewithpie@gmail.com. We'll post our Annapie pics soon too. Have a great time!

The Anna-bee, at age 1

Trick or Treat...or Tramp?

It’s that time of year again, folks:  it’s almost Halloween.  I’ve always enjoyed this holiday, whether I was dressing up when I was younger, handing out candy to cute kids as I got older, or even going to grown-up Halloween parties with Heidi and our friends in more recent years.

But, as is true of so many things, having a kid to dress up for Halloween changes one’s perspective a bit.

Now that I have a little one to buy costumes for, I notice little kids’ costumes whenever I look at Halloween displays.  And frankly, all too often, I’m horrified at what’s out there.

Photo from merchantcircle.com