when I started this blog five years ago, I was a pet sitter and the name animal-crackers made sense. now I'm a stay-at-home-dad and freelance writer, but rather than confuse everyone by getting a different blog, it's just easier to keep posting things here.

This was Dylan's first Halloween. Last year he was trick-or-treating in the NICU.



Josh insisted on going as the Green Power Ranger, which is weird because he's never seen the show.



After hitting a dozen houses around the block, we went to a local church Halloween carnival. This isn't much of an action shot, but Josh is in the inflatable bouncy castle thing.



Josh was enraptured by the puppet show song "God is bigger than the boogie man." Now I see with a quick google that it's actually a Veggie Tales episode. What a rip off.