Penny Cooper's Halloween

My personal battery has not been holding a charge and keeps running low.  So I didn't do anything special for Halloween yesterday, even though I worked––in the past, a good reason to dress up and be festive.

Penny Cooper's battery, however, remains on Full. She has been eagerly awaiting Halloween, and she celebrated all day.

First, she arranged a Halloween breakfast picnic with her favorite food--a croissant, which she shared with me.
bink was given a cinnamon walnut roll.
It was cold, so Penny Cooper wore her blue coat.

BELOW: Then Penny Cooper came to work with me.
Here she is straightening the children's books. She was very pleased with her costume, which she made herself: an orange hairband worn as a belt.

BELOW: "This doll won't be activated until you put a plant in her."

BELOW: On the way home, Penny Cooper stopped in a neighbor's yard to wrangle a tarantula. I say "wrangle" because it sounds good with "tarantula", but in truth, she was making friends.

HouseMate had carved a jack-o-lantern and bought candy to set out on the stoop. There weren't many trick-o-treaters.
The Girlettes were given doll-sized Tootsie-Roll pops. 

BELOW, L to R, starting in back row:
Low, Penny Cooper, Pearl Duquette (red dress), and SweePo (in pink)--still smudged with dirt from digging up Frederic the Potato. They don't want to wash it off!