Ah the joys of Halloween. To me Halloween is the official start of the Holidays. You get to eat Halloween candy for three straight weeks until you get to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is 4 days of gastrointestinal bliss and after dinner on Thursday the lights and tree go up. The entire month of December is made up of a myriad of tasty delectables, highlighted of course by spoiling the boy rotten. So we set out to get the boy his costume and get the holidays under way!
This year the boy really wanted to be a bat...not Batman, just a regular creepy bat. Well they don't really make bat costumes, and so we went to the halloween store where Owen had dozens and dozens of possible choices. He saw this one tucked in the back, and he had to have it...
Look at him admiring himself in the mirror!
In case you couldn't tell, he is a race car driver!
One of the best parts of the holidays are the packages of goodies that come from family.
An entire box of Life Saver Gummies!!!
While mommy was sick, Papa and Owen made cookies. The boy decorated all of them...though his attention span was pretty much expired at the end!
Because the boy goes to Private school, he gets to have a Halloween party and parade.
All of the K-5 students get dressed up and parade around for the parents and the 6-8 graders.
Strutting his stuff!!!
Mommy was home sick, so I took a lot of pictures...
Look closely, he is winking at you!
Monday, after his party we carved his pumpkin, and then it was time...
To go Trick or Treating!!! Owen and Harmony (who lives two houses away) went around the neighborhood together. Now, our neighborhood has 10 houses, but only 4 children. 8 of the houses had treats for trick or treating, but since they knew that they were only getting 4 trick or treaters, they loaded the kids up with candy. The boy's bucket was half full just from the 8 houses. (We bought full size candy bars because I knew we would only have 4 trick or treaters.)
However, our neighborhood was not going to be enough for the boy this year. When we finished our neighborhood we got in the car and went over to Dean's house to Trick or Treat with his family! Their neighborhood actually felt like a real neighborhood, people were out having parties and there were so many trick or treaters out. (You have to realize that out here you stay inside and don't get to know people, because you don't know who is going to shoot you, so it was amazing to see people behaving civilly to each other.)
Dean was R2D2, and Scottie was Yoda.
Their mom, who is 7 months pregnant, was the Death Star!
His poor little pumpkin was so full that the little plastic handel broke!!
We counted and he had 100 pieces of candy!!!!! (Then we taught him a life lesson about taxation...the man has got to keep you down!!)
3 comments:
I was honestly 13 years old before I realized that 'Halloween Tax' wasn't a real thing - that Dad had just been getting free candy all those years. Super sneaky. And I totally plan on keeping the tradition alive.
I can't get over how grown up Owen is starting to look!
Oh, and I think it's funny that the handle on his pumpkin broke because Madelyn's ghost pail become so full and heavy that her handle broke too! Whatever happened to pillow cases? You can fit way more candy in them and they don't break. =)
ha ha, i remember hiding candy before dad could tax it.
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