Obviously, there's been a lot going on lately, and I am struggling with what to talk about. I am of the mind that politics should be left to my other blog (which is supposed to be about music and politics but is really about 90% politics), and I don't want to risk offending folks for some reason or another. I think K and I will probably have to consult more before we sort of share some of the concerns we've discussed recently.

I have a big old pile of pictures to post here, but I want to stay in some sort of sequential order, so I'm going to include two from Halloween. As I discussed in my earlier post about All Hallow's Eve, I ended up buying two costumes for Reid to wear because we waited too long and ended up at the K-Mart in a low-end Halloween shop-a-thon. The costume Reid ended up wearing last Sunday was the frog costume, and you can see a closeup below.

However, the costume Reid didn't wear was a bee. It was a terrible costume, and remember I came up with it after engaging in hand-to-hand combat with Latinas and Korean women while clutching a baby who refused to wake up and help me shop. K thought the bee was cute (probably cuter than the frog) and several times we struggled with Reid to get him into the bee costume. For some reason, Read abhorred the costume and rebelled with every ounce of his being, which mostly means he just shouted a lot. A whole lot. Seriously. This picture doesn't do the agony of wearing the bee costume justice. He hated it.

Stay tuned for pictures featuring Reid's new booster seat (!) and some amusing experiments with cardboard boxes. In the meantime, here's Reid in the frog getup.