Little Emma has a shirt, a hand-me-down that Lindy once wore, with a Pokemon character on in it. I think the critter's name is Peek-achoo. Emma call it Chick-a-boom-boom. She is insistant that that is the little guy's name. Where she got that idea, I don't know.

Deanne organized a spook alley in our backyard over the weekend. The homeshool kids in the neighborhood get together every Friday for "game time." This is to give them some social skills like they would get in public school. It was Deanne's turn last week and she had the kids bring stuff to create a spook alley. The kids were then invited to come bak and bring their families and friends that evening to go through it. Some of the kids dressed up and played parts in the spookiness. Nate Hymas bought a fog machine and set it up by the back gate where everyone entered. It didn't work too well because of the breeze. Aaron Eckblad told a spooky story to participants by the trampoline pit. (We had removed the trampoline a few weeks ago because it was torn.) During his tale of some dead guy, another kid would poke his head or hand out from under a sheet of cardboard in the bottom of the pit and scare the little kiddies. They had strung a white yarn spider web accross the pit and put up gravestones in the bottom along with a red flashing skull.

Deanne put up the big three-room tent in the middle of the yard and little witches brewed yucky stuff in there as people walked through. The kids also used our great big plastic bug collection and spread them around behid the shed. They taped them to the walls and fence as well and made everyone walk through the narrow passage. They also made ghosts out of bed sheets stuck buckets on polls.

All the kids had a ball. Everyone wanted their own flashlight. We used up every one we had in the house. I even went a bought some more cheap ones along with candy to hand out at the end of the run.

The kids had such a good time, we had them come again Saturday night. Little Mason Hunting came dressed up as a dragon with a big stuffed tail.