Happy Halloween!!

We had a busy day yesterday! It started off with an animal show.

Object in the picture is closer than it appears..... 

So Amy notices what she called a hawk in the tree (the one pictured). She gets all excited and calls me to look at it. Well, I notice the huge dead possum on the road. All I could think of was "ugh!" and I knew I wanted it gone before trick or treating, but what the heck do you do with it?? (Not that I'd be brave enough to move it with a shovel.... but if I was....) Then I notice the "hawk." Only, it isn't a hawk- its a vulture!! It kept trying to fly down and pick at the possum carcass, but the street was really busy, so it wasn't having much luck. Finally, it got down, grabbed the possum with it's beak and dragged it over to the side. I thought it was just going to eat it over there, but no... we looked and the possum is gone. No signs anywhere. So.... did the vulture pick it up and take it somewhere? Although the possum was pretty huge, and I have no idea how much a vulture can carry. Or did it it eat it all?? We never saw other birds- so where are the bones?? Anyhow- it's a mystery. Amy said it took the meat home to it's babies- ah- Amy is so sweet. I, on the other hand, was creeped out by a dead possum and a vulture, in front of our house, on Halloween. Oh well- just made the day more exciting!

Lee loves this picture. I think he looks weird. 

Will has his appointment with the neurologist, who basically just wants him to have an EEG (to test his brain waves). If the results are normal, then most likely Will has fibril seizures and he'll outgrow them. If the test is negative, that would mean he has epilepsy and is prone to seizures and he would put him on medication. My poor guy is too little to be on meds all the time- so we are praying for a normal result!!

This killed me.... so they want him to be sleep deprived for the test. The nurse said we put him to bed at midnight and wake him up at 4am, and then keep him up until his appointment. THEN she kept trying to give me a 1:30pm appointment. I said, "How in the world do you keep a 16 month old awake until 1:30pm??" And that after he's been awake until midnight??? She was annoyed at me, but really..... has she ever been around a 16 month old?? Anyways, we finally found a date with a 7:30am appointment, and that will be better. Although- if we all have 4 hours of sleep- that day could be interesting in our house. His appointment is Nov 17.

I guess Will was hungry because he pulled the empty spinach container from the trash and ate the remaining leaf.

That evening we had the Stout's over for pizza and trick or treating. Our neighborhood turned out to be quite good for it too. Our neighborhood is huge, but we only did one loop and the kids got plenty of loot.

Our entourage, the Stout's dressed up like pirates. We didn't dress up at all- we were slackers. Didn't even put Will in his costume! Oh well. I was freezing! It was much different than trick or treating in t-shirts and Mississippi weather!

So that was our Halloween, hope your's was fun too!