My fetus: The perfect Halloween prop

Who knew that baring your pregnant belly would be such a hit at a Halloween party? But it was. For the third year in a row, we took home best couple costume for our take on Hugh Hefner and a Playboy Bunny, Misty, that had fallen on hard times (a.k.a. knocked up). We really didn't think we had a shot this year since we thought our costumes were lame, but I guess other people didn't think so. Hey, we'll take it! There were a lot of strangers at the party and they all wanted to know about Pat, like what Pat is, when Pat's arriving, you know, the usual questions. Pat is definitely a conversation starter with strangers. I guess baring my enormous stomach also helped. And for the second year in a row, I was coerced into singing Madonna's "Like a virgin" and even got down on the floor again and crawled towards the crowd. Christian said he heard someone say "Oh no, she's not getting down...oh no...no she isn't...YES SHE IS!" Of course I did. I'm not going to let the fact that I'm 7 months pregnant get in the way of my act. Although almost wetting my pants was different than last year.

Hugh & Misty.

 

MJ resurrected.

 

My favourite costume of the night--A One Night Stand. There was even a clock radio on the night stand.

 

Mrs. Doubtfire & Hugh.

Just like Madonna!

 

Phil & Beckie after Beckie's first golf lesson.

What a strange collection of people: Misty, Michael Jackson, Wonder Woman, A Jill-O-Lantern, and Paula Dean!

I've got nothing for this one.

A likely couple: Rodeo Queen & Sid Vicious.

This is definitely going in Pat's baby book. This is what happens when you steal someone's camera at a party and take a lot of self-portraits.

Then yesterday we were roped into hosting a "trunk" at our church's Fall Fest/Trunk-or-Treat. We didn't think Hugh & Misty were appropriate for little ones so we went as Ken and Barbie, our favourite costume from a couple of years ago. I had a great time interacting with the kids. Some kids even asked to have their photos taken with us (I'm sure if we'd gone as Hugh & Misty some adults would have wanted their photos taken with us). I hope we weren't too creepy looking in the photos. The highlight of the morning was getting to start a fire engine and make the siren go off (they use their feet to do that...I guess that's safer than taking their hands off the steering wheel). Thanks to the Oracle for letting me have my few minutes of fun.

Firefighter/Maternity Barbie.

There's my hero!

And today we had a very productive day of finishing painting trim, doors and a bookshelf, buying blackout blinds for Pat's room, caulking baseboards, buying curtain rods, tidying our disaster of a house, laundry, groceries, making a vat of spaghetti sauce, and getting some other errands done. The husband wants me to clarify that when I say "we", I mean "he" for most of the productivity (but I will claim the spaghetti sauce).