At 9 1/2 months pregnant, I thought I got a free pass on decorating this year. But according to Trilby, her house always got decorated — pregnant or not. I then reminded her that “I don’t remember you making a blanket for your son, or a Halloween costume for your daughter, taking constant road trips, making dinner for 10 on a regular basis, or anything of that sort when you were over nine months pregnant.” Then she said something obnoxious like…..”Maybe not, but my house always looked good!” So the guilt in me bubbled over, and we pulled out the stinking decorations and got going. We also purchased some ghosts and spider webs for our front tree when Daddy got home.
Scout and Icka both put up five ghosts on our front tree.
Icka was wondering who the stranger holding her was. (It is always a surprise to see what Micah looks like each day, as his facial hair has evolved from homeless beard, to rapist fu-man-chu, to the current Dr. Mario stash.)
Then the kids started to stretch the spider web.
Here they are helping Daddy get it up.
I was trying to get close ups of the kids, and Scout did his “I am too cool” facial expression that I think is funny.
You would hope that she is embarrassed when I snapped this shot. Instead, she immediately said, “Let me see” and came to the viewfinder to see the shot. When she did, she smiled ear to ear and walked away proud.
Then in an attempt to see more shots in the viewfinder, she just kept showing me every dead worm she could find. And there were a lot because we are in the middle of a boiling hot heat wave.
But when she started to tell me how cute they were, and then started kissing them, I had to put a stop to her worm obsession.
So we put the weasels to work by cleaning up the front porch.
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