Thanks

It is Thanksgiving: we have a lot to be thankful for. 

Jack O'Lantern

I just found some new photos from our Halloween extravaganza!

I had forgotten all about the amazing Jack O' Lantern that Howard made. 

Here it is, peaking around the corner, trying to get into our house....

Look closer...

Look closer!

 

Oh, the horror! 

Paloma wanted to check out Jack:

And here he is, laid out at night.

I think we frightened away a few trick-or-treaters...

Halloween

Wow, it's the end of November already and I'm only just getting around to putting up photos of Paloma in her Halloween costume.

Howard decided that we should all dress as freshwater invertebrates. He was an amphipod (scud) and made an elaborate costume involving many pairs of legs and a pair of stockings on his head for antennae. I was a gerrid (water strider) and made a less elaborate costume involving one pair of legs and some cardboard wings. I was going to put stockings on my head, but (un)fortunately forgot my antennae at the last minute.

Paloma was a clam, probably an Asian clam (Family: Corbiculidae), because that's the only one found in the Rio Grande. Howard made an amazing costume involving a pair of bivalves. Again, she was very, very cute.

I think she was pretty excited about being a clam.

Paloma gets her hair-do did

Every now and again, Paloma comes home from daycare with a new hairstyle.

She's not quite sure what to make of it.

Maybe it makes her a bit more aerodynamic so she can get away from the camera faster...

We think she looks pretty darn cute!