One holiday behind

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Now that we've all eaten turkey, it's time for me to get around to posting Halloween photos.
As you can see, Faith was Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz this year. She'd still wear the ruby slippers every day if I'd let her.

Faith doesn't have an acrophobic bone in her body, as evidence when she was 2 and climbed to the top of the McDonald's PlayPlace structure without a qualm. Last Halloween, our church had a 20-foot-tall slide she spent all night climbing to the top of and sliding down. This year, she had to settle for the inflatable rock-climbing wall. We found out afterward that one of the other sides of the "mountain" had its footholds closer together for smaller climbers, but despite the fact that she was on the "big people" side, she made it to within 5 feet of the top.

Here she is at the petting zoo, in a shot that shows off her French braids. I hadn't even tried to French braid anyone's hair since high school, and it took me about a half an hour and a lot of hair gel to get hers done. I told her before I started that I wasn't a very good braider. She was very still and patient, but part of the way through, she said, "I think you're right, Mommy. I think you're not a very good braider."

And, yes, we do still have another child, but we don't have any Halloween pictures of him. Eric is at a difficult age photogenically: If he sees me point the camera at him, he immediately stops whatever he's doing and runs toward me to point at the camera. So most of our pictures of him here recently are either when he's sleeping or out of focus as he quickly approaches.