Halloween Costume for Preggo and Chinese Foot Binding

I LOVE Halloween. I will not let the possibility of being almost ten months pregnant shut down my Halloween costume plans! ha ha I am THAT dedicated. Actually I just adore a reason to wear Insanely long false lashes and do my make-up all artsy fartsy. SO here is the line up... IF I have baby BEFORE Halloween, I will be a Geisha and he will be Spicy Tuna Sushi.

If, by chance I am still VERY pregnant by the time Halloween rolls around, I will be a kick ass Glamorous Miss Piggy.
For the record...Miss Piggy will have her own make-up line via MAC Cosmetics in February, coinciding with the release of the Muppet's film! I could totally rock this pregnant!

And at last resort, I could always be a pregnant Geisha (although much more fabulous than the one pictured here: middle)
While researching Geisha stuff, I found this photo of a supposed Geisha's foot. (It's one of those deer-caught-in-the-headlights sorta things... Upon further research, there is no way that this was the foot of a Geisha, as foot-binding was a Chinese tradition, not Japanese. You can read more about it here. The tradition was banned in 1911. I have too much time on my hands, clearly.

Over the Hump, Baking and Mice

Still pregnant folks!

I've been baking A LOT lately. I bake a lot regardless, so the fact that I am baking more than usual, says a lot. There is currently the following diet killers in my kitchen (it's ridiculous, really):

-Cranberry walnut zucchini bread
-Chocolate chip cookies (made with 1/2 butter & half shortening, for texture)
-Pumpkin chocolate chip bread
-I made ahead and froze cookie dough as well, just in case I'm out of commission.

This morning, I saw a mouse in broad daylight next to my stove and royally fa-reaked out! Aren't mice SUPPOSE to be nocturnal? ha ha Funny thing is, mice don't particularly bother me as much as bats do. We tend to see a mouse or two every September/ October. We live next to a massive community garden and when the weather begins to get cooler, the mice have a go at our townhouse.

I hate mousetraps and refuse to use any type of loose poison; anybody have any mousetrap alternatives?