Laundry

Ohh and here's Kerri helping me do the laundry...she takes her clean clothes

very very seriously!

(we're moving clothes from the washer to the dryer ...)

Lobster Kerri

Because Patrick and I are Mainers, we decided to dress Kerri up as a lobster for her first Halloween. Both Patrick and I were chefs (thanks to Salvation army!) and we carried her around in a lobster pot (side note ~ if lobsters are $3.99/lb in Maine, why are they still $18.99 at Ralphs grocery store out here?? That's such a crock, they must be Canadian lobsters!) Kerri was such a good sport in the lobster outfit, but it must have been like wearing 10 super-down sleeping bags because that thing was puffy & thick! She toured around my work here starting at 3:30, and somehow got me out of work completely by about 4:30 - very good job, Kerri!

Halloween night we definitly got some treaters, but saw that a house up the street was all decked out with grave stones, life-size aliens, Freddy's... so we decided to take a walk down there at about 8:30. These neighbors ROCK! They made a haunted house/maze in their backyard, everyone was dressed up, and they had dry ice fog everywhere. We asked if it would be okay to take in Kerri & they said no problem, if she should get spooked, we'll just take her out fast. But I have to tell you, nothing spooked her ~ she laughed and laughed the whole way. Patrick and I were freaked, but she just cracked up. It didn't matter if it was a bloody Pig, a mummy, a monster, everything made her laugh and she wanted more and more. There's nothing like seeing the texas chainsaw guy jump out and try to scare us, then see Kerri, and all of a sudden he'd just melt ..."Oh my... she's SOO cute! Hi little baby! What's her name??" Then others would be behind us and he'd have to break with the chainsaw and go back to spooking. But overall, it was a lot of fun. Thank God we didn't have to pick up their house after that! I can't wait to see what they do for Christmas! Patrick and I are SOO going to Griswald out our house this year! I hope everyone had fun & I'll post the Little Guy pics next.