Jimi Victorino Campos Hoff--Posing as the Ugly Spiderman--Poops Out Early in Candy Search Mission

When I returned from the grocery store, I was surprised to find the "Ugly Spiderman" (Jimi) already returned from trick or treatinq with his Dad. Darren took him to the Mall and Downtown so he was ready early to return to the house to sample some of his candy haul.

Earlier in the evening, Dad had helped Jimi pimp his Spidey crime fighting suit.

That day Grandmom Chris had gone to work dressed as a snazzy and distracting woman with tons of bright red lipstick, heavy make-up, a tight dress with slits up the side, and voluminous and strikingly noticeable and perceptively gaudy purple hair. Later, Jimi borrowed and tried on her wig.



















A couple of the trick or treaters who arrived at our house and received candy from Jimi. We had quite a few of these ghouls and goblins this year and Jimi was very generous and courteous with all of those who he met.














Darren handing out candy.........................................................and me the substitute candy hander-outer in the ready position. Jimi and Darren in the background.























My darling wife, Mrs. Fruit Loops, 2007














"Stiches Neck" Erik and Vampire Andrew..............Happy Pumpkin and Pouty Pumpkin























Left to Right--Uncle Erik, Erik's friend Andrew, and you know who!

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
Rodney Dangerfield

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Jimi August 2006/August 2007 and other Things...

The crying baby to the left is not Jimi; the mouth is way too big and the teeth way too few. However, the Jimibino has been know to cry on occasion. The couple times that I have dropped him off at the Shining Stars pre-school and he has cried, his eyes pleading with me not to leave him, I have contemplated returning to my car, changing into my "hero" cape, and flying back to his rescue.

I don't remember dropping our sons off at schools or babysitters so I am assuming that Chris had to do all that by herself. I do remember being proud of Darren for graduating from Harding Webster pre-school. If I remember correctly, he ran track for the Harding Webster "Hulk Hogans."

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Some Comparisons of Pictures From August 2006 when Jimi was 14 months old and August 2007 when he was 26 months old--

To the left is Jimi in August 2006 at the age of 14 months and to the right he is in August 2007 at the age of 26 months. To date, I can't get Carol or Chris to spill the frijoles on how old either of them are.

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These pictures are also one year apart. I believe that it is pretty easy to tell in which one Jimi is younger. The similarity in both pictures is that he is doing one of his favorite daily activities, an activity that he performs repeatedly and repeatedly, no

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O.k. I think that I am man enough to grant you that the picture on the right is not a particularly good one of Jimibino. Also, I have tricked you because he is 14 months in both photographs. However, I am sure that you caught the hint that he has the same shirt on in both pictures. And finally, I'll admit it: I wanted to get my own picture in the blog. I certainly am not going to hog my imaginary handsomeness all to myself.

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14-month old Jimi to the left and 26-month old Jimi with cousin Mark to the right in 2007. These cousins are a pair, indeed; they challenged Darren and Jose to a tag team wrestling match--and won! Rumor has it that Jose and Darren are appealing this decision to the World Wide Federation of Incredibly Mismatched Wrestling Matches. For their part, the Twin Terror Tykes from Tulsa (they picked their own name) said that they will fight Darren and Jose, anyplace, anytime, with both hands tied behind their backs. In what has to be described as a major additional concession, the TTTFT also offered to have Grandpa Bob on their own team as a major liability.

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Erik Returning From School, Darren Talking to Jimi, Jeff at the House...

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Bob says Bye...