It's hard to believe Halloween is already here again. I know for many kids this holiday can be of equal importance as Christmas - and some have argued, gasp, it's even better!?!
Well the idea of dressing up and getting free candy is kind of nice. Isaiah has quite the flair for coming up with costume ideas. This year - continuing on the Greek Mythology theme he has been smitten with as of late - he decided to be a "half dead Poseidon". Not quite sure what that is, but it only cost us a plastic triton and some blue hair dye (spoken like a father who thinks in terms of cost).
I should mention that here he is with his teacher, Mrs. Cox. She has continued what has been a long line of great teachers at his school. Permit me a little unsolicited bragging when I mention that at our last teacher conference she reported that Isaiah is one of her best students.
Malachi was a cowboy - which was a little easy since he was that last year. Again very little cost (think of the dad thing here) except a new plastic gun. He wanted to be Curious George but we were never able to find such a costume. I'm thinking we'll utilize the internet more next year.
Julianna was a kind of fairy as the girl section of the costume store is divided into two aisles - princess and fairy with maybe a few animals thrown in, to see if you're paying attention. The part of that section that was puzzling to me was the skanky costumes for little girls. Um, hello I don't plan on letting her wear this when she is 20 let alone 2 - so that's a bit of a Halloween mystery to me. Oh, I should add she wasn't able to wear her wings due to weather, so just imagine them.
The night of Halloween (done here on the 30th) was unfortunately kind of cold and drizzly. So we didn't go for very long, but still made out with a pretty good stash. It didn't take long for Malachi to want to go home. Even Isaiah didn't mind. Now I was good yesterday and only half one small almond joy and a half of a small kit kat. But today I had four small candy bars. I'm thinking maybe the candy fairy will come and throw all the candy away. Long live Christmas.
