So, Jenelle pulled out her sewing skills and made costumes for Annika, Jonathan and herself.

Annika’s costume was Jenelle’s crowning achievement this year.  Fortunately, she eventually agreed to put it on.

After a photo session, the family set off for a ’round-the-cul-de-sac trick-or-treat walk.  Annika declined to say “trick-or-treat” at any house, but maybe she can do that next year.

After returning home, Annika sat down on the living room floor to sample each piece of her modest-sized loot.  They next morning, she asked her parents where her “snacks” were — but by that time, they had mysteriously disappeared.

Jenelle’s sewing projects were particularly impressive this year due to repeated problems with her Swedish sewing machine, which she inherited from her grandmother (the machine, not the problems).  (The machine’s name is unprintable here because it contains too many consecutive consonants.)  After repeated trips to the repair shop failed to remedy the problems, Jenelle bought a pdf of the machine’s manual on eBay and then fixed the machine herself.  Since then, MIT has offered to confer an honorary doctorate on her, but Jenelle is too tired and too busy to bother with such fluff.

More Halloween pictures are here.