Happy Halloween

This is Amos the bat with Abigail the pumpkin. They were born on the same day. Abigail is about eight hours older than Amos.

Amos helped me give out Halloween candy. It is a pretty big deal in our neighborhood so we had lots of visitors. At first he was finishing up nursing so he was snuggled in and hidden securely under the Hooter Hider (That's a brand name as two of my uncles can attest, not my own nursing slang... That story will have to be told in another post.). Anyway, once Amos finished eating (or rather, drinking, since Claire informed me that we don't eat milk, we drink it) he was in a good mood and was gladly greeting all of the little witches, zombies, supermen, and other questionable characters that came to the door. One of our favorite jokes was to answer, "Trick or treat?" by placing candy in each child's bag saying "treat, treat, treat, treat..." and for the last one "baby" as I held Amos over the candy bag dangling his feet in the bag if I could get close enough. Most of them just laughed. Some of them resisted. One boy said, "Ewe, no way!" but then he reconsidered in light of his character and admitted that if he really were a zombie he would actually prefer the baby over candy.