Halloween 2013

[Clodfobble]

Here's the fobs in their costumes last night. Both were characters from Minecraft.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Here's the fobs in their costumes last night. Both were characters from Minecraft.

Very nice!!!

So, not swept away in the flash floods???!!! Or did I mishear the news this morning?

[limey]

Fobulous!

Sent by thought transference

[glatt]

Excellent! Could they see ok?

This is the boy in his lumberjack costume. Carrying the axe he made. He prefers it to the foam chainsaw.

[Chocolatl]

Sweet beard!

We had a Minecraft creeper in our neighborhood. After I made a comment, I heard him say to his sister: "SEE?!?! SOMEbody knows who I am!"

Here's Beans as a hula girl. She carried a piece of candy up and down the street and kept looking up at the other kids like "Hai guyz! I'm doing this thing, too!"

[lumberjim]

Very nice

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by glatt

Excellent! Could they see ok?

Heh, ah, no. The costumes were a bit of a debacle, actually. The heads kept slipping around, and the boxes on their arms made it impossible for them to reach their heads and straighten them. Plus the boxes on their legs made it surprisingly hard to walk. After about three houses both kids were very upset and we had to shuffle back home and do an emergency costume-ectomy. I duct-taped sticks to the interior corner of each head, so they could hold it up in place like a Mardi Gras mask. We took all the arms and legs off Minifobette, and everything except the non-mask-holding arm for Minifob. They were disappointed, but they agreed that they weren't realistically going to be able to trick-or-treat with the full costumes on, and once we got back out on the street and kids still recognized what they were, they were happy.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Heh, ah, no. The costumes were a bit of a debacle, actually. The heads kept slipping around, and the boxes on their arms made it impossible for them to reach their heads and straighten them. Plus the boxes on their legs made it surprisingly hard to walk.

Heh. I think we had two Halloweens like that before the kids decided going as a box was a bad idea.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by BigV

So, not swept away in the flash floods???!!! Or did I mishear the news this morning?

Nope, our neighborhood was hit by the storms of course but we weren't affected by flooding. It actually happens relatively frequently to the low parts of the city, maybe every 8-10 years or so. The old downtown Whole Foods used to have high water marks painted on the exterior wall from past floods.

[chrisinhouston]

Took the first shot just before we hit the streets.

The other 2 were taken at the Zoo Boo at the Houston Zoo last weekend. Some of the grandchildren were not in a good mood needless to say.