Halloween

Calvin spiked a fever yesterday and so he's at home for a 24-hour quarantine from daycare. So I have a few minutes to catch up. Hence Halloween in December. We did the usual town thing, despite the drizzle. It's a miracle none of us got sick. Nick M. joined us while his parents were away. Continuing the tradition, Calvin was a red-hot-chili-pepper this year. Briggs and I re-discovered a junior-sized Dracula cape earlier in the season, so he wanted to be a vampire. He even enjoyed the whole make-up thing. Eli, because we would not let him solicit candy unless he were wearing some sort of costume, was a garbage bag that had been "gotten" by a black bear. The sign says, "Bear-1, Trash bag-0." Nick was the elf from the Tolkien Ring Trilogy.