It was a dark and stormy night, as the two tiny Boxtrolls, Fish and Shoes, set out on their Halloweem journey. Secretly shadowed by their brothers to keep an eye on them from around the corners…there were creaks and groans coming from places unknown, but still they persisted and summoned their bravery from deep down wiffin to go up and knock on doors to get some camdy. Ober and ober again until their buckets were ober flowing wiff all different kinds ob candy – and what is dis??? Raisins?!?!? Are you kidding me?? No, we will fro those out.

But they collected so much camdy they had plenty to share wiff their brothers, and eben mom and dad.
Wishing you all a safe and happy Halloweem!!

(See below for their costume inspiration as Fish and Shoes from The Boxtrolls mobie. It’s about cheese, and how heroes can come in all shapes and sizes – eben rectangles)

dis is my dinner. Not all ob it, I hab to share wiff my brothers.

Today we are in Nebraska doing bizness and it’s berry nice and relaxing here.  We bisited Carhenge, and had lunch in downtown Omaha. We were peckish, as we usually are, so we went to a local diner and I had taters fibe ways, and it was delicious.  We lub saying Omaha, it’s fun.  You should try it. It makes you happy. OoooomaHA! Not many cities are dat fun to say.

Fank You Lori Hansen – we’ll see you again soon!!

We are taking some time while we wait for Halloweem to do some more trabel. We heard there was a big balloom festibal in New Mexico, so we went there and it was amazing!  Soooo many cool ballooms wiff bright colors and they make berry loud ‘whoooooooooosh’ noises wiff big fire before they go up in the air.  Dat seemed a little scary, so we didn’t go up in one, we learned not to mess wiff fire – but we had fun watching dem and then we went for a snack.

Fank you Joyce Lobato for New Mexico Internashunal bizness!

Boil, boil…toil and trouble… ratties snitch and cauldrons bubble…we make a spell and all will call to bring the camdy to us all…
Dats our spell we made wiff the poshuns we poured into the cauldron we made in the witches hat. Don’t be scared ob it, it’s real spells, but they are nice spells. We did do one batch dat might hab been bad and made Baxter faint, but it might hab been because he was just so excited to do witch craft. We’re not sure. It’s probably fine, just don’t drink it.
(Another wonderfully creatib and fun adbenture from Ratty Box! Fank you!)

I’m making my Halloweem costume, I’m halping Reuben wiff his too. I hope someone will halp me wiff the glue gun, I’m a little nerbous about dat part.

Hab you seen the Boxtrolls mobie? You can watch it if you hab Amazom Prime, I fink you would like it, it’s mostly about cheese.

I hab an appointment at the DMB dis morning, and despite the fact dat nobody is here I hab been waiting for two hours. Good fing I brought lots ob snacks!

Dis is how my weekend went. We arted. We had fings to express, but I wasn’t expecting a baff. It was ok though, part ob it was berry nice. It will take awhile, but you will see our arts next monff. We are excited to show you!!

P.S. Dis is not what we mean by proper hydrashun.