A day after the Halloween party at my work, we once again dressed up in our matching Halloween costumes of a sailor, sailor’s honey, and a cute monkey, and attended an annual costumed party at our friend’s place in Somerville, Mark and Nadya. The theme for their party this year was Comic Book Heroes, and I stole part of the title for this post from their blog. Not quite sure what comic the 3 of us came from—we don’t read or know comics well—I suppose I could have been Popeye, while Lena could have been Olive, but then it’s unclear where San’kin in his monkey outfit would fit in. Does not really matter, we liked our costumes, and the cute monkey is the super-est of the super heroes to us!
Everyone at the party, the heroes and the heroines, was with little kids, who were roughly San’kin’s age or a bit older. Unlike at my work party, Alexander had a chance to interact a bit more with other children. He didn’t really play with other kids, it was more parallel play (a term used here in the US to describe kids playing separately from each other but at the same time and at the same place). San’kin seemed to like an orange inflated balloon, which had some kind of Halloween-themed drawing in a black marker on it, and kept chasing after it. Of course he also tried licking it, getting some of the black marker on his lips. Oh, the good times.
Alexander also spent a bit of time with Nadya and Mark whom, regrettably, we do not see as often as we would like. Just like at the office party a day earlier, Sashka looked reserved and quiet most of the time. Mark, however, made quite an effort trying to elicit a smile out of Alexander and eventually succeeded! He is pretty good with kids.
It was nice to see Mark, Nadya, and Andrei again. We live so close to each other and ought to make an effort to get together more often. Thanks to Nadya for posting the photos that she took. I need to post ours as well.