We Love Halloween!

My, now ten year old, granddaughter's first Halloween.

Halloween was so easy, when these photographs were taken.

A little bit of paint and you called it a day.

This is my oldest son as Gene Simmons, of "Kiss".

The costumes were simple and fun.

Here is my youngest son as a clown.

My youngest daughter, as "Pippi Longstocking".

Complete with a stuffed monkey.

(As in 'toy'. Don't sick PETA on me!)

My youngest son as "Dolly Parton".

(I'm sure his back hurt at the end of the night.)

My oldest daughter as a gypsy, my youngest daughter as a ghost,

and my oldest son as...

Your guess is as good as mine.

Whatever he was, it went over big in the neighborhood -

He came back with two bags of candy!

Which I rifled through, as I did everyone's, as soon as they went to bed -

helping myself to as much chocolate as humanly possible.

As they got older, they knew that the Halloween candy-bags must be hidden from Mom,

if there was to be any left for them, in the morning!

(Other than the sour, hard candies and Tootsy Rolls.)

Even I would get dressed for the occasion.

I was the Bride of Frankenstein for many years, just

the outfit would change. The hair and make-up stayed the same.

Brushing-out my hair afterwards, was quite the adventure.

Painful doesn't even begin to cover it.

Then, I decided I'd be something else one year -

And Dolly came to town again!

I generously padded my front...

My rear and my hips.

(Dolly would be proud.)

Here is my oldest daughter, the gypsy, again.

And this is her, now fifteen year old daughter, when she was little.

Wearing a fairy costume, that her mom made for her!

Such a good mom!

And here is the same little cutie-pie.

(I want to reach in there and poke her little tummy!:)

And here is her, now twenty year old daughter,

with the same little one, her sister.

(Making a very interesting face. Was it something I said?)

My oldest granddaughter (above) used to love "The Count"!

I bet she still does.

(This one's for you, Sweetie.)

These days, the costumes are fancy.

Very fancy.

Very, very fancy!

But, even now, home-made is still good enough!

This is my, now nine year old, grandson.

Have a safe and fun Halloween, everyone!!

There are SO many things to love!

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Thank you.

Signing off for now,

gabriele

Peanut's First Work Out

I work out. My husband works out. Our kids work out. Our grand-kids work out.

Why would we think that the peanut (our tiny, three year old granddaughter) would be any different? One day, while watching her eight year old brother exercise, she wanted to do the same thing. Kids. Big ol' copy-cats. She tried to pick up a 5 lb. weight, but it got the best of her after a blink-of-an-eye! It was funny to watch though! Yeah. I'm one of those people. :)

My son and I went to a sporting-goods store and we thought, wouldn't it be funny, if they had 1 lb. dumbbells?! They had 1 lb. dumbbells!! And they are so cute!

Speaking of cute... heeere she is!! Trying out her big-girl weights, for the first time! I know, I know... it's not good to have young kids exercise with weights, before a certain age. But she wanted to try it and... if you have kids, you know that in a few days, those will be long forgotten. Or stepped on.

But, in the meantime, she was having some fun!! And so was I! (Warning to self, "If you use the camera-setting on 'burst', you will get a zillion pictures in a minute and won't be able to decide which of those zillion pictures, you'll want to use in your blog.")

Her big brother was standing behind me, showing her the moves. This was the first time she picked them up. I love her little skinny-minny arms! :)

OK! Here we go!!!!

Whoa! 

Losin' my form!!

Whew! Caught it!

That was a close one!

Hey... it's not so bad if I use just one.

Yeah. That's it.

Lemme try two again.

Whoopsy.

Maybe I'll do biceps.

Mmmmmm.

What?

Like this?

But I like it this way.

Watch me now.

WHOA NELLY!!

This one feels sooo good.

Arrrr!! Feelin' the burn!!

Hey! What if I add a little aerobics? JUMP!

OK...

I...

have...

to...

stop...

now.

Hey!

Big brother's in the picture!

What's he up to?

How cute is this kid?!

She's back there thinking, "Glad that's over!"

Oh boy. Heeere we go.

Goofball!

Yes. Yes he is.

She's doing stretches after her work out. It's good for you.

Look at my abs! Look at my abs!

Can I take my top off now?

Seriously.

It's itchy.

What do you mean you're done taking pictures?! I was just getting started! Maaan.


And that was the end of the work out session. Their big sister was asked to join in the fun, but she declined. She was busy. Doing something important. Very important. Yeah. Right.

I LOVE THESE SCREAMIN' BRATS!!!!! ~ ~

There are SO many things to love!

I love comments and Followers too!

Thank you.

Signing off for now,

gabriele