Happy Halloween!

Halloween is a night of mystery. As such, I'll leave it to you readers to try and figure out how it is that I've finally written a timely post.

Megan and Topher came back from their trip to Utah last night. Exhaustion kept us from going to the church Fall/Halloween activity after I picked them up, so we made sure to go out trick-or-treating tonight to make sure we had plenty of people tell us how cute Topher is.

You'll notice that even as a vampire Toper is a messy eater.

As a new vampire, Topher has been doing his best to learn his lessons. Tonight's topic: Shielding yourself with your cape when confronted with a bright light.

Next week's lesson: Hazardous Materials or Garlic 101.

Topher got the hang of it quickly.

Fortunately, Topher was already good at hissing, too.

Topher was an excellent vampire. There is no better father-son bonding activity than attacking unsuspecting pedestrians.

Fresh from the kill.

Not only did Toph gorge himself on fresh blood. He also got candy.

Pretty good haul for 6 houses.

And because I don't think any Halloween is complete without the Monster Mash, here is a clip:

They say it's your birthday

We're really letting things slip away with this blog here. I guess 17 days late for noting Topher's birthday isn't too bad. We did celebrate it on the right day. We swear.

Things got off to a festive start with some wonderful birthday cards.

I'd say thanks to everyone for the cards, but I think this face should be thanks enough.

And then it was on to the presents:

This shot is weird. I guess I wanted everyone to see our decorations, the presents, and Topher looking a little odd.

Fresh (I tried to spell that "phresh" on the first shot. Thanks English!) off taking some weird shots of Toph with his unopened presents it was time for some cute shots with his opened presents.

Now we can send him for groceries.

From there it was time for birthday pizza.

This looks like a screen shot from a sort of bizarre first person shooter video game.

And as though pizza wasn't enough, it was then time to strip him naked and let him go at his birthday cake.

We heard that Columbus actually made landfall in just a diaper.

Apparently Topher didn't get the memo as he had relatively little interest in actually touching the cake. After some coaxing he dipped his fingers in there, looked at them, wiped them on his chest, and looked around for the fork.

There was literally no cleaning between touching the cake and taking this picture. I was going to call him dainty, but then I noticed his finger hitched in his pants.

Happy Birthday Toph!

A Day in the Life...

While I realize that not many people watch the videos I post (only 34 views for my magnum opus? I'm pretty sure 10 of those are mine), I'm going to go ahead with another post of videos (at least it's a post, right?). Don't worry though, I've cut them all down to about 15 seconds each.

Today we bring you some of Topher's daily adventures. We're hoping that when some studio execs see just how cute (and engaging) he is, they'll ask us to do a realty tv show (you may think that that was a dig at John and Kate, but if you look closely, it would have been a moronic one*). Without further ado, here is an average day in the Huff household.

Topher, info-junkie that he is, can't get going in the morning without checking his news sites and tech blogs. It is a good thing that he now has an iPod touch so that he is not tied to his computer to do so. Here is his review:

From there it is time to get into his work for the day. He has lately been saying something often that sounds suspiciously like "brimstone." About the time he took to this, we started finding him doing the following more and more often:

I suppose we need to get our act together. Topher is no hypocrite in his preaching, though. He takes great care to not just tell people how to live their life: he is also a shining example of an upstanding citizen. Watch for example, how he springs to action the moment he hears that someone's lost a contact lens:

But do not assume that Topher is some goody-two-shoes. No indeed. Despite the heavy rhetoric, when it comes time to get down, Topher is always at the front of the line. Watch for example this paparazzi [thanks spell check!] shot from a recent costume party in town (The sound seems to have gone weird on me. Just imagine some phat beats in the background):

But when it's all over, there is nothing that Topher likes more than to kick back and relax on his fancy massage chair:

And from there it's time for bed to wait for the next day to do it all again.

More updates should be coming soon. Things have been busy, but we're going to get pictures from Topher's birthday up as soon as we can.

*If you didn't think that, you obviously weren't watching the Entertainment Tonight between football games last weekend, whose tag line seemed to be: Now with a years serving of John and Kate in every episode.

Who Doesn't Love Fall?

Topher does!