Post your goblins here!!!
 

OK, so we know we have some hot cellarites. But what about our offspring? You know no matter how we feel about ourselves, our kids are always adorable. And Halloween is prime cute time. Post your goblins here!

The haul. Decisions decisions....

What a sweetie, LabRat!

These pics are from school parades and stuff, earlier in the week and last week. My son is superman, and daughter is Peter Pan (she took her hat off.)

My daughter had to do candy based homework for the third year in a row. You have to count the candy, and figure out different ways to sort it (color, flavor, chocolate, nuts) and do little bar graphs. It really makes her lose momentum when she get home, and she ends up only eating a couple. It's almost un-American.

I love the kid behind your daughter with *his* mouth open...practicing for his turn? That's one mischeivous looking Superman there ;)

My middle daughter and youngest: Little one is supposed to be a bat, but she kept tearing her wings off..lol. Oldest dressed very appropriately as a devil. That's the corner of my oldest son's face in that pic.

More of the wee one. She fell asleep in her stroller within a block, so daddy and big sis finished up for her.

Our neighborhood was a ZOO! We had over 200 children come to our door, SUV's full of kids trucked in, all street parking full, and crowds of kids up and down the streets. We went through 15 lbs of candy (actually I ran out and had to go buy more about 7:15 pm).

All kids so far very beautiful. I'm sure they are full of character too, given the expressions.

Stormie - I can't work out how many kids you have (just being nosey!) You mention middle daughter AND eldest. Obviously I can spot the son and the littl'un.

And doesn't your devil look like you?! Although don't tell her - none of us want to hear that. All I heard at my Mum's 60th was how much I looked like my Mum. Yeah - thanks!

Envy all of you your Halloweens. I left the office & went home to my cats :mecry:

Cute miniRat you've got there, labrat!

Looking at her haul, it would appear you're in a reasonably decent neighborhood. Despite a clear underage of Smarties, she has some good candy there, although I do see at least one can of miniature Play-Doh, which means you have at least one self-righteous dweeb who feels it's a bad idea to give sugar to kids. No obvious boxes of raisins, which is another bonus as far as the composition of your neighborhood.

I do miss the simpler days when it was okay to give out a treat bag with a couple of Spiced Wafers inside, as well as the homemade popcorn balls and candy apples.

Ah, nostalgia.

P.S. Looks like everybody's got some cute kidlings there!

Ah, I see the confusion SG. I have three children, oldest is the only boy, middle child and baby are girls. I suppose I meant, oldest girl who is also the middle child. Omg..think of the confusion if I'd had 6 or 7 kids!

Wolf, one guy in our neighborhood gave out peanuts. ONE single unshelled peanut per person. :eek: . Either he is very poor or likes to live dangerously.

Stormie

Very cute kids.

The one peanut thing reminded me of my ex telling me a story of when he and his best buddy were young adults they ran out of candy to give the kids. So they gave out potatoes. Raw potatoes. Can you imagine a kid going home and emptying his sack and finding a potato? :)

If I only got one peanut and say, my brother got two or three I would be very jealous. I would have peanuts envy. (I can never resist a chance to use that joke!) :D

As strange as the whole scenario would be, I would actually have to tell my kids that they couldn't take a peanut from the weird man, since my stepson is deathly allergic.

We dressed my (hugely plump... or "sturdy" as my friend likes to call him) kid as a sumo wrestler. :) Unfortunately all of the posed photos got ruined by blurriness and a messed-up flash. But here's one in his carseat before we left the house for the Halloween party. He had a little bathrobe on to keep him warm in transit, but you can see the sumo-diaper and little topknot.

cute goblins guys :)

What kind of function did you take your kids to, Ali? There's a girl in the back there with nothin' but a bra on! :right:

Wait a minute...isn't that Bri? :p

That was at our recent wedding Els. lol I think the girl is wearing a halter top. Also looks like there's an elbow which might be giving you the impression of boobage. ;)

Shawnee--I am dying laughing over your new user title :lol:

Thanks....I couldn't resist!

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Actually, I handed out skull keychains and got some "cool" and "I'm putting this on my backpack" responses, so :p

And, I'm not anti-candy, just pro-trinket, cuz my kids love them so~

Treat bags! I remember those. The "apple in the razor" rumor started by the big 3 candy corporations really changed things. /conspiracytheory

I thought the razor in the apple rumor was started either by kids who wanted real candy and not fruit, or possibly manufacturers of radiological equipment supplies.

I just wanted to say that I have eaten all of my daughter's Reese's peanut butter cups. I am a bad mom.

To me, that is the ultimate sacrifice and I salute you.

I'll just step back in case you bulk up all over my shoes....

bulk up? bulk up? Isn't that supposed to be over in the british expressions thread?

bulk up.

OK, time to bump this for 2007!

This was taken this morning at the pups daycare. She's the pink Sleeping Beauty. Her 2 best friends are on each side of her. Her shoes alone cost more than her whole getup last year... :rolleyes:

I can't wait to see everyone's ghouls tomorrow!

There were a TON of kids out this year. The weather was very nice, 50ish, no wind, no rain (unusual). It was more like I remembered as a kid, before everyone started going to the mall to trick or treat. Wussies. We even had our first fire of the season. It was a good night!

Before:

Some of the houses are really decorated to the hilt. I love it when the adults get dressed up too.

During:

Finally, the take:

Awesome!

We had a ton of kids too. Saw a few minivans dropping kids off in our neighborhood too. This was a good year for Halloween. My wife and I both go with the kids, because it's fun to visit all the neighbors, and we leave an unsupervised bucket of candy on our front porch. This year, it was cleaned out, and some trickster ripped some of our decorations down too. Possibly because there was no treat, so we got the trick.

Here's Harry and Hermione

Unfortunately, it turned out Minifob hated his elephant headpiece. So he was just an indistinct grey animal with a tail most of the night. But I did manage to sneak one picture in before he pulled it off for the thousandth time.

is that right before he caught a hellacious beating for sitting on that guitar? I hope.

LR - you didn't have to say which was your daughter - I recognised the hair immediately! Lovely.

Glatt, your smiley children conform to British Halloween standards, we have spooky costumes - I like it.

Clod - good Lord it only seems like yesterday I was congratulating you on his birth. Things move quickly in the Mini-Fob world - one minute I was reading about Mini the embryo, now he has an opinion on elephants!

No. The thing's a piece of crap. Mr. Clodfobble doesn't remember how to play it even if he says he does, yet he won't get rid of it on (some unidentifiable) principle. It belongs to the kids now, no question.

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Arrrr Matey walk the plank you scurvy dog!!!

not a goblin, but . . .
 

sorry, no goblin pics, but this is beautiful Daughter No. 1 (and ETA-- LOVE all the little goblins posted you guys):

Wow! She is beautiful!! That'a a really neat photo.

She's very pretty, Cloud! Model pretty. I love to see all these proud parents. :)

Sorry I'm late. Griff just informed me that this is my job.
We entered lil' Griff in a costume contest for $500 thinking she'd be a shoe-in but it turned out to be a random drawing. Rats! But she did have a good time trick-or-treating when people would call in their spouse from the living room to see her. She felt like a real celeb. (And I was pretty proud too standing behind the bushes)

So cute! Did she walk around with her eyes closed?

Awesome!!!

love the mousetrap costume. I have an idea to run by everyone for next year- I think it would be really cute if one of my kids would be a Q-tip(blue tights and leotard, with batting wrapped around her head) or Charlie Brown with the really messed up ghost costume. Feedback please

Thanks! I like the QTip idea. Especially if there was a big ear walking around also.

great idea for the other kid!

Provided they are both safely prepubescently innocent, otherwise it might get ... weird. Very very weird.

Good point they are, and both girls. In fact I had just thought of that, I said to my husband "maybe we could do the Q-tip and ear thing...ahhh maybe not"