We went a little crazy with Halloween this year and made costumes based on the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are." Barbara sewed Elliott's Max costume/wolf suit from scratch, and I made our masks out of paper mache. It took weeks, and they turned out pretty good. After three Halloween parties, two visits to our moms' elementary school classrooms to read the book, and a visit to Barnes and Noble for a book reading, we were ready for this Halloween to be finished.