Houserspawn(tm) Classic - October 2004

Fourteen-month-old Ben, dressed as a very frightening sippy cup-toting pumpkin, terrorizes the neighborhood on Halloween night 2004.

Houserspawn(tm) Classic - October 2000

I have a strong preference for classic Halloween costumes. I'll take a vampire, ghost, zombie, or mummy over a Power Ranger, Dora the Explorer, Buzz Lightyear, or a Disney Princess any day.

(Sad but true: out of the 70 or 80 kids that came to our door on Halloween last year, close to 50% of the girls were dressed as Disney Princesses.)

I don't have much say in what costumes the kids choose for Halloween these days, and I'm somewhat nostalgic for the days when they were young enough that I could make the decision for them.

This Vampire Zach costume (from his first Halloween, when he was just 10 mos old) is probably my favorite of any that the kids have worn over the years.

Houserspawn(tm) Classic - September 2003

Zach and Phoebe lounging out on the front lawn on a sunny September day in 2003.

Crash

It's been a week or so since I've posted, as the Houserspawn(tm) desktop suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure last week.

We're now back up and running and (pretty much) fully restored.

One silver lining in the whole hard drive-replacement-and-recovery ordeal is that it provided us an occasion to re-visit our old digital photos as we were pulling them from our backups.

In the days and weeks to come, I'll post some of these old, rarely-seen photos from the Houserspawn(tm) vaults.