Halloween 2009: Poogie Style

This year, October was a blur. No pumpkin patches. No fighting off bees at the kettle corn stand. No corn mazes. Nothing.

Weird.

Nevertheless, the family did manage to run the gauntlet of pre-Halloween parties.

There was the Hudson Preschool Parents throwdown where our niece's kindergarten teacher was the entertainment.

[Editor's Note: Dude does magic AND wears rainbow suspenders! Anyone know of anything more courageous than that? Me neither.]

Here are the girls at the HPP function:

Then there was the Penn State v. Michigan neighborhood party where I went in as an IU fan sporting a 25 point lead on the road at Northwestern and left a one point loser.

Insert your prophetic statements concerning my life here.

Actually, it was fun to watch people actually concerned about Saturday afternoon college football. It was strange.

And did I mention that I drank the sting of the IU loss to excess?

Well, if not, there's only one way to challenge me under those circumstances...put a knife in my hand and let me carve a $6.00 rotten pumpkin!

Yep. They wheeled a despondent and partially loaded dad over to Uncle Bill's house for pumpkin carving after the first party.

Here's the result:


A couple of notes on the carving this year.

1. Carving a rotten gourd is depressing, especially when you know you paid top dollar for it.
2. Henry actually designed his own pumpkin this year. Erica performed the knife work.
3. Don't drink and carve.

Anyway, in case you were wondering. Caroline was Belle from Beauty and the Beast. Henry was Iron Man. Josephine was Minnie Mouse.


Uncle Bill? He was a pirate. It made everything he said on Halloween easier to put into context.

We'll leave you with an ear-to-ear smile from our little Joey who thinks fallen leaves are cool to crush under her tiny-sized shoes.

Next up, Caroline's birthday on November 4th.