Halloween

We didn't take too many opportunities to dress up this year for Halloween. Mallory dressed as a Cinderella Fairy for preschool. That just means she wore her Cinderella costume with a set of fairy wings which is what she seems to insist on wearing as of late. But, the boys only dressed up the night before Halloween when we went to the Kosair Children's Hospital Haunted Halls. Trevor was a Speed Limit sign. Since he decided he was getting a bit to old for costumes, he pointed at the Speed Limit sign at the end of our driveway one day and said if I would make something like this, he would wear it. Just a bit of foam core, vinyl letters and a big Sharpie pen and it was done. Boston was a vampire. If you know Boston than you know that he gets embarrassed easily. I put the make up on him and when he saw it he wanted to take it off. I managed to convince him that he looked great, but he still hid from anyone he knew. And, Gage was Ash from Pokemon. It was Trevor's costume a few years and he fit the recycled costume well. For that night Mallory was a monarch butterfly with beautiful orange hair. The event was simple and fun. We got just enough candy to keep us entertained and full for awhile. Then, we ate dinner at Chiles because kids ate free when dressed up in their costumes. On the real Halloween, we just stayed in and passed out candy because heaven knows we didn't need any more of the stuff. We realized that most people were sitting at the end of their driveway passing out candy and since we were in our house, many trick or treaters passed us up because they would have had to walk ALL THE WAY to our door. Amazing how easy it is to trick or treat now. You don't even have to go up to the doors. That left more Twix for us!!