Notes on Halloween

Since the kids were in a good mood, we decided to let them wander around the living room while we answered the door for Trick or Treaters.
This meant that the dogs (Akitia's) were blocked into the kitchen by a baby gate so they couldn't run out the door or trample the triplets.
Now, as expected, most of the kids just wanted their candy and moved on. But a few looked inside.
The triplets were curious and headed for the door everytime I opened it, but the only comments we ever got were how big the dogs were.

How we ended up with a Ford Escape

So I haven't had much time to edit more videos, but I have uploaded more pictures and reorganized some of the other pictures.

Above is a shot of the kids lined up in our Ford Escape. We knew early on that neither of our cars would hold all 3 seats and we knew a new car was on the way. We got the seats (from friends, thank you) first and then spent a month looking for the right car. It seemed like everything we found was wrong. Mini vans didn't have room for the strollers or the dogs. Or if they did, the seating was bad and someone was going to end up trying to lift a baby over the middle seat with car seats in place to get one in the back seat. Bigger stuff like the Durango and Suburban had a different problem. Plenty of space, but we would have to stand on a thin step and lift babies up into the car and it didn't feel safe. The bigger stuff was also outside of our comfortable price range. We found a few cars that would fit the seats, but then the dogs would end up in the trunk.
The mid sized suvs had a weird problem. The car seats would not fit in them side by side. This might sound reasonable till you realize that the smaller Escape fits all 3 just fine. We discovered this as a fluke as I had gotten into the habit of trying the seats in every vehicle I came across. So the seats fit in the Escape very nicely, but not the larger Explorer. There's some genius design work going on there.