It was...sucrose...poisoning.

We had the church "trunk or treat" last night.

We brought a "spider girl", a vampire (NOT Dracula), two skeletons and a mummy.

One friend said we should have dressed Henry up as a marshmallow. That would have been more fitting, for sure. He's squishy.

Here is Sophie's spider girl costume. What is a spider girl, you ask? We don't know. But she wears a headband with a spider in it. And she is cute. I don't know where she learned to hold her hands out like that in photos, but that's how she rolls.

Emma had some fangs that were supposed to attach with putty to her teeth, but they kept falling out. I think her real fangs are scarier anyway, dontcha think?

Here are the pumpkins. Andrew carved his own on the left (modeled after The Scream by Munch--his idea). Ethan had a dragon, Sophie had a kitty, and Emma had a butterfly.

We made this one for Henry. Picasa face recognition was smart enough to recognize a face in the photo. It guessed it was one of our relatives. The kids thought that was funny.

After the kids collected their loot, they got down to business. Sophie grabbed the scissors and started cutting open wrappers to save time. It's a technique she used all day.

Here is Ethan doing two lollipops at a time. Whatever it takes. My philosophy on Halloween candy is: "Eat it until you're sick," aka "Get it over with all at once."

He taught Sophie the same trick:

Later they started doing three at a time. Sophie finished all of her candy in less than 24 hours, and we're all better for it.

Ginger's going to post a video to her blog called "The Effects of Sugar On Our Children." You will want to check it out. It is almost unbelievable.

Tonight we stayed home and handed out candy at the door while we watched Ethan, Sophie and Emma literally bounce off the walls. And when I say "literally" I'm not just employing a figure of speech. I mean they literally bounced off the walls.

Meanwhile, Andrew, Henry, Ginger and I played Scrabble.