halloween

we started our day making vegan chocolate graham cracker cookies for the sandwich spider cookies we would be making later that evening at the party.

here's my little elfin helper who is a mighty fine baker.

all dressed up and ready for pumpkin carving with daddy. this will become a tradition i believe. michael is an artist and very skilled with a knife

(and a scalpel) and loves to carve a good jack-o-lantern.

ezra chose a happy face again this year - sweet boy that he is.

making spider sandwich cookies with andrew and evan at the auc spouse's organization party

they enjoyed eating them right away.

running on the tables was the most preferred activity of the party.

after all, he did have superhero powers.

our friend laura set up a face painting table and ezra got a spider on each hand

that he talked about for days afterward.

ezra's girlfriend bianca came to the party and they took this silly picture together.

after trunk or treating in the parking lot we headed home to our hotel. ezra kindly passed out the rest of our candy to the hotel staff and a few strangers who gratefully accepted. he is greeted daily by our hotel staff and is often too shy to have a conversation with them. but, when we left for the party and ezra was all dressed up in his costume he was fearless! this carried on the whole evening. dressing up in costume is magical.

the loot (which i have hidden in the laundry room since in hopes that he will forget about it).

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