happy haunting

supposedly, halloween is over. not at our house. we have a few halloween cd's that joshua loves and we've been listening to all month--monster mash, love potion #9, ghostbusters--all the spooky classics. this morning while i ran upstairs joshua turned off my morning news and got the cd back out (i had already started putting the halloween stuff away.) when i came back down he had "adam's family" playing and said, "mom, what button do you push to get the song to play over and over and over and over?" since then, we've heard about the creepy cooky mysterious & ooky family well over 100 times this morning. and still counting. i figure i can't complain too much because lately, when we're in the car and i'm flipping stations to find a song i like, joshua will say, with a sigh and an exacerbated tone of voice, "mom, let's just listen to the news!" how's that for training?
so halloween...originally, i wasn't thrilled about joshua being a superhero, it's like how all the little girls have to be princesses. but he loved it, so it was definitely a good thing. there is a mask with the costume, which of course he won't leave on, so i decided to die his hair red, which made him a little more original. the kids at school thought the red hair was the coolest. damien kept wanting to touch it, and carter just stared at him with this amazed smile on his face and asked "woah joshua, how'd you get that stuff in your hair?" jacob's little pumpkin was actually one my mom made years ago for my sister heide. when we were back in wisconsin we put jacob in it and he loved it. we all thought he looked adorably hilarious, so decided that would be his costume. the only downfall is that, while trick-or-treating, joshua kept getting asked "do you want some candy for your little sister?" oh well, i still say he's the cutest pumpkin i've ever seen, and the happiest. i will post some pictures of just the cute boys in the next few days...