Those are halloween-esque smileys.

If you are dressing up, what are you wearing tonight?
I will be going trick or treating as myself. (Scary enough I know)
My 2 year old is going as Thomas the Train. The Train has two shoulder straps and he gets to wear and engineer strap.

My daughter will be doing an encore as a princess. This time it will be a purple princess and not a pink one.

My son has decided that the scariest creature of Halloween time is named blue man. He is EVERYWHERE and is determined to eat my son. With little or no prompting he will share his feelings about blue man with you.

Is this the blue man of Blue Man Group (who put on a fantastic show, btw, which everyone should see)?

My daughter (5) will also be a Princess this Halloween. I am desperately trying to find my gorilla mask--I love being the gorilla. There is absolutely nothing that is 'out of bounds'. I mean, what is there that a gorilla wouldn't do?

I was at a party a few years ago--several of the guys ended up watching a game on TV. I was sitting there talking with this guy for 10 minutes before he realized he was talking with a gorilla. Very classic reaction! (Probably had to be there).

I won't be dressing up tonight, but my oldest will be a bat and my youngest a pumpkin.

I don't plan on dressing up much, but I will don all black (complete with long, flowing witch-like skirt) to pass out candy to the neighborhood kiddies.

My boss had me laughing today, though, with his costume. First, I should premise this with - he is a stereotypical lawyer. He wears tailor-made suits and sort of enjoys the idea that he is/is part of 'the Man.'

So....he calls me into his office to bring him a file and he's sitting there with this PERFECTLY sculpted pig mask on. Coupled with his impeccably tailored clothing he looked like an image straight out of Animal Farm (which is what he was going for) - it was GREAT. He said he got a top hat and cane to go along with it for when he gets home to take his boys trick or treating. It was a real hoot.

I pretty much quit dressing up when I got too old to trick or treat. I don't go to parties, IN GENERAL, (have a thing about crowds) let alone costume parties.

IF I WERE going to dress up, I would dress up with a homocidal maniac. it doesn't require me to do anything other then look normal (after they look like everyone else) my brother said that if he went to a part he would dress up in white pants, shoes, shirt and hat, take a 55 gallon white trashbag, and fill it with white things (like socks, toilet paper, paper etc...) and write real big on the front "WHITE TRASH"

I have trick or treat duty tonight, so I'll be in my 'wore out from a long week at work dad, let's hit these last few house so dad can have a beer' costume.
But my girls will be a ladybug and a University of Oregon cheerleader.

Blair and I are going to be modern day goth vampires.

I am going as a witch. My two girls will be butterflies, I made the costumes myself!
My husband is some kind of ugly creature thing which terrifies my youngest...which I find odd because she loves The Nightmare Before Christmas.
My friend from Bangladesh is coming over tonight with her kids and this will be their first ever halloween..she is making us a huge curry meal...my favorite... should be fun.

My gf decided last night that we HAD to have costumes. Target was VERY picked over.

I too am going as a ladybug. Stop laughing.

My seven-year-old daughter is going to be a ghoul. My ten-year-old daughter is... a ghoul.

My twelve-year-old son has decided to forgo the trick-or-treating this year. He will be helping me.

My duty is to hand out candy and scare the bejeezus out of kids. Last year, I stuffed my clothes with straw, put on a mask, and sat lifelessly with a big bowl of candy in my lap outside in the yard. I had a sign next to me saying "help yourself to some candy." I looked like a big stuffed scarecrow-monster. When kids came up and got their candy, as soon as they put it in their bag, I would leap up, roaring. They all seemed pretty scared. I didn't do this to younger kids.

When I was a kid, from about thirteen on, this was what we would do. I have a friend who was and is an incredibly skilled artist. Though he currently does gritty urban paintings and sculptures, he has also got fearsome skills making latex masks and the like. We would spend every halloween at his house scaring kids. It got pretty elaborate - we built pulley systems to automatically open the front door, and to make this disgusting corpse my friend had built from latex and other materials rise up from a coffin...

I'll be going as an adult filmstar in training... I already had a shirt which read Porn Star in Training across the front so all I had to do was buy some Halloween chaps, an 80's hair-band wig and some of those goofy teeth that fit over natural ones. I am as yet undecided on the underwear to be worn with the chaps, will wear my leather jacket to complete the outfit, and likely end up in some awkward situation late in the night after a few "beverages"...

Well, my friends and I are just going to pick up a bit of candy. But, for a halloween party, I'm beign Castro . I've got the boots, fatigues, beard, cigar and all.

I'm going as a Liberal which means I'll be stealing the kids' candy, deciding what candy they should be able to have, then take credit for giving them back 70% of their own candy. The other 30% I'll keep for myself and my friends.

I'm Sadako from the Japanese version of The Ring. Corpse makeup, shredded fingernails (a really gruesome effect), a long black wig and a white dress.
The boyfriend is too lazy for a real costume, and is a priest.

I never actually got around to putting together a real costume, so I dug out some old clothes ala Billy Jean's modern, gothic vampire look...lots of black vinyl.

I'd like to add that the weather in Colorado is bone-chillingly cold this evening, and there were a large number of little girls walking around in little ballerina and tinkerbell outfits.

We had a fog roll in just before school let out, and the cute little fairies, princesses, ballerinas and such, whose Halloween parade was in the 65 degree range, left school slightly chilled.

My daughter and I dressed up as witches, a good old stand-by. My mother (who has been dead since 1996) made me a long black witch dress which I don nearly every year. My daughter had a store-bought witch dress with a gauzy black and gold spiderweb net cape.