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Taking guesses as to what these are and where I got them. Winner can come share them with me.

Happy Halloween Birthday

Halloween is such a great day to have your birthday. Do you ever worry that no one is going to do anything for your birthday and it's just going to feel like a regular ole' day? I don't. I had such a fabulous day and here are some of the highlights...

- I dressed up as a Bumble Bee, yellow tutu and all. And Clark gave me a remote control for my camera so the only pictures of me don't have to be of my shadows.

- My mom actually remembered that it was my birthday. Hooray! Although I would have forgiven her (again) if she had forgotten because she has a pretty good excuse this year. We even got to Skype with her and show off our sweet costumes. I told her that she ought to tell the trick-or-treaters that she's dressed as a Brain Cancer Patient. Get it? Because she's a Breast Cancer Patient. Hilarious, right?

- Clark gave me flowers. And waited on me hand and foot all day long. No dirty diapers for me.

- Booker drew his first face. I was so proud. Eyes, smile and even some hair on top of this little pumpkin. I just love it so much. Now if he would only stop making that face of his. You know the one, see above.

- Teichert finally decided to start walking on a more full time basis. Maybe people will stop asking me, "How old is he? And he's still not walking? Hmmm." And maybe he'll finally stop looking like I just dragged him through the dirt.

- I was surrounded by my loved ones as I blew out 25 candles and enjoyed take-out from Pei Wei and ice cream cake.

Thank you for all the birthday wishes!

Halloween in Tucson

We headed back to Tucson to meet up with my sister for actual trick-or-treating. She drove all the way from Prescott to hang out with us.

She was the dressed as the Jungian Archetypal Shadow... obviously.

But even Jungian Shadows get lollipops stuck to their butts.

(And even wonderfully birthday-doting husbands get to relax after a night of festivities to watch football.)

Clark would have been a cow if I hadn't already packed it up in anticipation of our move- bummer.

Brave Sir Lion Teichert and the Not-so-Brave Sir Booker.

Booker was, in fact, quite brave. He approached each house with GUSTO. It went something like this:

Ding dong.

(Door opens)

Booker screams, "TRICK OR TREAT"

(Treat is dispensed)

Booker screams, "THANK YOU, HAPPY HALLOWEEN!"

And as the night wore on and more candy was consumed, something like this:

Ding dong.

(Door opens)

Booker screams, "HAPPY, uh, TRICK or THANKYOUtreatorHALLOWEEEEEEEEEN!!!!"

(Treat is dispensed)

"Um, thank you!"

Totally fun night. And now to explain to him that it only happens once a year.

More photos.

Halloween in Mesa

As much as I love living in Tucson, there are times that I miss Mesa terribly. That's why I'm so glad that 1) Clark's family gets together as often they do and 2) the average kids' movie is the same length as the drive up.

Yesterday for Halloween we had a delightful family gathering up in Mesa. We ate 4 different types of delicious soup (too bad the weather decided to jump back up to 80) along with cornbread and French bread. The kids carved pumpkins and bobbed for apples. But the best part was just sitting under the shady trees and watching the boys have a blast with their cousins.

Photos here.

The Strangest Compilation of Music Ever

If you've spent any time at all in a car with my three-year-old son then you know that he is VERY particular about his music. There are a select few songs that he likes to listen to OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER... and you get the idea... again.

I've gotten into way too many near-accidents fumbling through my various CD's trying to keep him happy, so I finally compiled one single CD with all his favorite songs. For his future embarrassment, I present to you the strangest compilation of music ever- Booker's All-time Favorites, 2008-2009 Edition:

1. Wake Up- Arcade Fire

2. Africa- Toto (yes, that Africa song)

3. Kids- MGMT

4. She's Like a Rainbow- The Rolling Stones

5. Time to Pretend- MGMT

6. On the Radio- Regina Spektor

7. Lucky Today- Cloud Cult

8. Forever- Chris Brown (thanks to this video)

9. Come on Eileen- Dexy's Midnight Runners

10. Sure Shot- Beastie Boys

11. The Fixer- Pearl Jam

12. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song- The Flaming Lips

13. Girls Just Want to Have Fun- Cyndi Lauper

14. Baby Beluga- Raffi

15. Share My Sillies Out- Raffi

I'm not sure if I should be proud or ashamed of my son who can sing along to both the Flaming Lips and Chris Brown. Eh, at least he loves music.

Puppies...

grow into dogs.

And think they rule your couch.

Egypt Race for the Cure

I thought I'd share some of the photos my dad took at the Egypt Race for the Cure. It took a lot of self restraint to not photoshop myself in. Man, I wish I was there. What a neat experience.

Pink pyramids.

Cheer up, Chris! It's not like your mom has cancer or something. Oh wait...

Best photo ever. An Egyptian lady with her race t-shirt pinned to her abaya. Waiting to start a race for the cure while her husband puffs away on a cigarette.

Whirling for the cure! These whirling dervishes had their own band of musicians following them.

Spinning and twirling across the finish line. Did I mention that I REALLY wish I had been there?

At the finish line. I like how the Sphinx is in between their heads.

Way to represent, Dad and Chris!