I bet Jilli would be so overcome by the cute that the spider costume won't matter.

Oh, I agree. I just think a warning would be nice so she can be prepared.

Spider kid! Spider kid!

Does whatever a spiderkid does!

Does she know how to spin a web?

'Course she doesn't, she's a kid!

Look out! Here comes the Spider Kid!

Iris-Spider has chubby-cheeks!

The bank teller didn't want to cut a check for me because my DH wasn't there and it was coming out of our joint account. The teller's explaination was, "I have to know that your husband knows you're taking the money." Er. No you don't. It reminded me a lot of when my sister was nearly barred from traveling to Canada with her nursing infant because the baby's father wasn't travelling also and that might mean that she was abducting the child.

Needless to say, I got my big check and the teller got an earful.

Now I have to pack up chairs, pumpkins, candy, camera, etc. to take over to the house after closing.

I am wearing horns and red boa and this t-shirt : [link] Even funnier, my assistant is also dressed as a devil, although she is much cooler--she's got horns and a blue dress.

Neither of us are as fabulous as Iris, though!

thanks Toddson - that is good advice re: the email.

It's good to be spun back to the positive on the Golden Compass - I've been really excited about it ever since I hopped the website.

My brane wants this to be "Spideritis", but she's way cuter than even a cool-sounding made-up disease.

my brain did this too. And then thought 'is that what Jilli has?' And then waited for Jilli to appear in a poof of glitter and smack me on the hed.

Thanks you guys - she's really excited. Picked the costume out herself (walked right past the princesses and the winged things). Keeps singing 'The itsy-bitsy Iris went ... to school. She played with her friends and they were very cool..." (part of a song we made up when she first started preschool). D - sorry for the spoiler...

LOVE the spider costume! D had a spider hat which we meant to put him in today at daycare, but then we got a late start and forgot. Oh well.

I think Kat and I are the only Buffistas with Ergo-sized babies right now (and I don't think it gets cold enough in LA to require this many layers), but this is just too completely brilliant not to share.

Geez, Sparky. W. T. F? Was that a regular teller, or a temp stepping in from 1957?

Still and all, yay closing!

I would post more, but Iris has kilt me with her lovely eyes and her smiles, both the big gleeful one and the small wistful one.

Sox if you gave your mother paperdol's book... I'd better bring my copy to my mother at Thanksgiving.

Sparky! Good lord, tellerperson. Please. Someone needs a Title IX infusion.

Sox if you gave your mother paperdol's book... I'd better bring my copy to my mother at Thanksgiving.

uh. Yeah. Ei.

Ergo carriers rock. This summer, we were still actually using ours sometimes as a backpack, believe it or not.