Jamie and Liam Chew's Blog: 2004-10-31

2004-10-31 23:39 (Kristen) Jamie woke up at an hour that would have been early if it hadn't been for the switch back to standard time. His father, earning many husband points (redeemable for amazing prizes), took Jamie for an hour (John: feeding him breakfast -- chicken curry -- and cleaning up the kitchen) while I tried to rest after a restless night. He was in a good mood, and enjoys playing around the bed in the morning.

Most of the day was spent getting ready for Hallowe'en. I finished making the wings for Jamie's costume (each feather is hand-sewn, folks: not one of my swifter ideas, but the effect was nice) and the halo, while John, Ayami and Rika carved the pumpkins and Jamie slept upstairs. John took Jamie out for a short walk earlier in the day (John: It was an hour and a bit. Jamie munched on an apple all the way but didn't fall asleep, possibly because he was distracted by the Danforth being shut down for the Greek Oxi celebrations. I gather Oxi is Greek for Hallowe'en (not).), but Jamie had a late morning nap, and wasn't interesting in napping again until later in the afternoon.

He had a good dinner of tuna, soba, and asparagus, and managed to snag and eat a whole samosa by himself (John: at least that portion that wasn't spread over his bib). Yum. He wants to feed himself more and more, now, and isn't that interested in having other people feed him unless he is in a hurry. After we hosed him off, we waited for Alice and Amy (John's sister-in-law and niece, respectively) to arrive so that we could take Amy and Jamie trick-or-treating together. (John: Rika kindly offered to stay at home and hand out candy. We ran out after 83 visitors, more than double last year's count.)

Amy was a very cute giraffe, and Jamie was (of course) an angel. I was a valkyrie of sorts, although I was thinking that I could have done a silent vengeful spirit from Don Giovanni, with the helmet and all. John was a math geek (he hates dressing up for Hallowe'en, but we love him anyway). Jamie was very cute, and got many compliments. The funny part was that most (John: all) of the people who saw him thought that he was a girl, unless they already knew him (John: and there were a large number of kids who recognized him that I didn't know at all!). He tolerated the costume well, although the halo (a glow stick) bothered him somewhat. We made it to his Tai Tai's place before taking the costume off. Then we saw Sam and Ben, Jamie played with them for a bit while the majority of the adults sat and drank wine while decompressing, and we went home for a well-deserved rest.

(John) I'll post the link to my 2004 Hallowe'en photos again, as I've added to them tonight. The ones that aren't of Jamie are of the crazy things he saw our neighbours stage for Hallowe'en: dry ice machines, rear screen projection horror movies, puppet shows, along with the usual over-the-top graveyards.