Saturday morning was the Montessori Halloween Carnival, complete with magician, costumes, and foot ghosts. The kids’ costumes ranged from a very cool astronaut (and a girl, I might add!) to Jasmine to you name it. There was plenty to eat (each class was assigned one of an appetizer/main course/dessert) and lots to do. It really felt like fall in Vermont, the place was so festively decorated, not a somewhat warm southern day in what happened to be late-October.

When we arrived, we went to put Thane in his costume for the first time. We are apparently still not judging his size accurately. The red hot chili pepper we got barely fit over his little body. His legs weresqueezed into the bottom half, one over the other, and the buttons on his waist were screaming they were pulled so hard. But, we got him in it and he did not seem to mind one bit. As a matter of fact, our little ham of a son seemed to realize that this getup was going to bring him even more attention than usual.

We saw Erica and Deb right away. Erica’s son David (Thane’s buddy) was dressed as evil Spider Man and looked great.

Thane did really well in the costume for quite some time and then decided that he was DONE. He wanted out of the costume and was saying FEED ME! We ended up leaving early, missing the parade, but we saw most everything and got to show off our cute little chili pepper.

Thane got his school photos back this week and they are online here (username and password are both mc2007). They were done by Grannis Photography. When I called her, she said Thane and one other baby (I can’t remember which) were her favorite. She used Thane’s photo (one of the ones I really don’t like) as part of the header for the whole school.

Honestly, I am not wild at all about the pics. I don’t think they look like him and I think Jay and I do a better job in our shots. Jay mentioned that she did get an array of emotions from him, which is cool. She does this very neat collage of 5 faces or so, and it would be neat to have that, but I don’t think it is worth the $275.

I might just buy a couple of the laughing ones to support the fact that she comes to the school to do this and commemorate his fist school photos.

Let me know what you guys think.

I am in DC for training and while I miss Thane terribly, this trip has been very good for my ego. I have been vigiliantly changing my eating habits and exercising since Thane was born. People at work are noticing (Myles called me skinny on Tuesday) and it seems like I am looking good in the pibliic’s eye as well.

At the parking place (we use flight park-they rock!), the guy who took my info welcomed me with a “hey, beautiful!”
Then security. I was standing in a ridiculously long line when an agent came by and told people to follow him to a much shorter one. Only myself, a cute guy, and about 2 other people followed (I am using the new line from now on, way shorter) and the agent as he led us there kept mumbling…”Sure, don’t follow me, I only work here, I must be lying!”. We all had a good laugh at that. Fast forward about 3 mins instead of the 30 for the other line and my bags were marked for inspection. I knew immediately what it was and had the following convo with the security agent:

Steph: Oh no, it is my food!
Agent: yeah, we saw something on there (he then picks out two tins of pasta in tomato sauce)
Steph: yep, that’s it, I’m on a diet
Agent: diet? you’re gorgeous, why?
Steph: Ha! Are you going to take my food? oh no!
Agent: yep or go through this line again and check your bags (I chose the former)
Agent: and remember, like a dog, a man likes some meat on them bones!

After I thanked him profusely for making my day I found myself at the gate and with a delayed flight that cute guy also happened to be on. We chatted for a few minutes and I decided I was incapable of flirting with a 20something anymore.

I then walked away and called jay, telling him he had a hot mama for a wife!

This has all had me smiling from bwi to rockville, maryland.