NaNoWriMo Win!

I just pulled off a come-from-behind, 8.5 k words in the last 5 hours of November, exhausting National Novel Writing Month win! Huzzah! I can't write any more about it though, because I have no more words. More later, hopefully.

Halloween 2010

Yesterday we dressed Gwena up and went to some Halloween (sorry, "Harvoween") festivities at Jon's family's church. She didn't have any idea what was going on, but got really excited by all the people and commotion. We had our hands full keeping her from landing face-first on the asphalt, since her desire to run around seems to have outstripped her balancing abilities. She didn't eat any candy, but she did pig out on bunny graham cookies, or "crack bunnies" as we like to call them.

Gwena was dressed as Ponyo this year. When Jon and I watched the movie a few weeks ago I knew that would be the perfect costume for her!





The costume consisted of a red Christmas dress and large white bloomers from Children's Orchard and a green bucket from Party City. In total I paid about $13 for the costume, and every piece of it gets to be reused!

Last year, in honor of Gwena being born on Talk Like a Pirate Day, we dressed her up as a little pirate baby.



Red and white striped onesie and black pants from Children's Orchard, plus red and black cloth scraps to make the sash and bandanna. About $4 total and the clothing was reused for months to come!