Happy Halloween!

with love from 

plus the gladiator and the eudimorphodon 

Boo!

Our little girl is so excited about Halloween, she beat me to decorating the house.

Actually, I have no plans of decorating anymore. I have left it all up to Chicha. No prodding from me needed, art direction all hers. I just come home one day and I see witches, "flying ghosts" and pumpkins...

spiders...

and ghoulish faces!

Her Halloween art projects are all over. My house used to be minimally decorated pre-children. Those were the days. Ironies of ironies, why will Chichapam not heed this reminder she posted herself?

I think it's because she believes she spruces up the house better than me. Oh well. One day, I have a feeling, she will truly out-diva me in the design department.

Circus! Circus!

I think I pulled it off. Not entirely. The Twin Jackos were a no-show.

Tato: Mama.. My friends said you should only wear a super hero costume.
Mak: I only want to be an animal! Colonel Hathi (the elephant in Jungle Book) or Jaws (yes, that shark that freaked the hell out of all of us in the 70s)

The arguments were compelling and came with matching smiles and the sing-song voices they use when they want me to cave. Of course I caved. How can you mess with peer pressure, an obsession with animals and those smiles? Tato's hunt for a superhero costume was a walk in the park. Mak sent me on some wild goose chase. Not many elephant costumes out there. Correction. Not a single elephant costume out there. We did manage to find something that resembled Jaws. We were all set.

As for the circus I had hoped for, it did come to town.

We got the the big top

the parade

the show

over 200 shiny, happy people

Yup, even the shiny happy pets

Mak has decided he wlll be a stilt walker next year. He said so with that smile and a sing-song voice. I already know I will be hunting for stilts. And a safety net. Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Monsters can be our friends, just like these cardboard creatures Bear and Chicha love. Thank you Wooster Collective for celebrating street art.

Because we like our halloween happy, not scary. Press play!

Hope you meet some groovy monsters yourself this trick or treat season!

Happy Halloweens

Yes you read right and no I haven't completely lost it. I just happen to be right in the middle of organizing this year's Halloween street party for the neighborhood. I have visions of clowns and jugglers, magicians and glitter tattoo artists. I'm seeing shiny, happy people...all under a "circus tent". I hope I can pull it off.

Another year, another halloween. Two pumpkins at twenty eight days.

Race car drivers Michael Scumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya, a year old

Boxers Manny Pacquiao and Eric Morales at two

Two faces of Harry Potter at three

Flirting with this idea this year.

Now to get the Mak-Tatos to agree. I hope I can pull this one off too.