Gavin went to a few houses during Halloween last year, but wasn’t really old enough to get the full trick-or-treating experience. We weren’t sure how he would handle it this year. But he’s a stubborn little guy, and determined to do whatever his older brother can do. Chrissy and I decided that the best thing...
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I love Halloween, but this year was especially awesome because I got to go Trick-or-Treating with Aiden for the first time. I’ve taken him to a couple of houses before (sometimes just carried him there) on Halloween, but he was too little to really get the full experience. This year, dressed up in his Jedi Knight...
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Aiden had two field trips to Scheeringa Farms last week, one with each of the pre-schools that he is attending. Chrissy chaperoned the trip with the public school class and I tagged along with the private school class a few days later. On both visits, both the parent and the child were allowed to pick out one pumpkin each from...
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Once again, it’s time to decorate the front yard for Halloween. The garage rafters were full of orange storage boxes, including last year’s monstrous Day-After-Halloween haul. Just getting everything out was a chore, but it was all worth it once the yard was complete. We easily have as many Halloween decorations as...
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We did send out a Christmas letter this year, but I wanted to post it to the web site anyway. Who knows, maybe somebody who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year? If you’re not on our Christmas card list, and would like to be, please let me know! The “online...
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Chrissy recently found some time to take some Halloween photos of Aiden and Gavin. Yes, Halloween was two weeks ago, but it’s hard to find time for these things when you’ve got two kids! She could have easily blown it off, but Halloween photos are an important family tradition in our house. We’ve got fabric...
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Halloween is a pretty big deal in our house, and this year marks Aiden’s first real “Trick or Treat” experience. I was really looking forward to it. When I first heard that Barack Obama was holding a political rally at nearby Wicker Park on the same night, I wondered why he would overlap with a holiday. The...
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Aiden was too young to carve pumpkins last year, but we thought it would be fun for him this time around. We bought our pumpkins about a month ago, and they’ve been sitting on our front porch for a while. This weekend was the last chance to carve them before Halloween, so we got to work on them. We haven’t carved...
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