11.02.2013

Happy Halloween

P informed me back in August that he wanted to be a "fearsome dragon" for Halloween and I thought to myself "surely he will change his mind before October." I was hoping he'd decide on something else since the only dragon costume we have is 12-24 months and looks so hilarious on him. Yes, he wears it. All the time. See this post. Well when he didn't change his mind I started looking on Ebay for a similar one in the right size aaaaannnd jackpot. So for Halloween this year we had two dragons. 

They wore their costumes everyday during the week of Halloween and they were quite the sight at Costco. At one point we created a bottleneck in front of the milk while an entire gaggle of geriatrics pulled out their smartphones to take pictures. It was kind of weird and a little uncomfortable but when one guy said "I can't wait to show this to the guys at my lodge"I figured, what's the harm? 
As many of you probably already know our Halloween got off to a rough start with P in the ER for a bad case of croup. P got around 5 hours of sleep that night and A (for some weird reason) only got 2 so Terry and I really had no sleep at all. Luckily, my incredible Dad decided to drive down and join in the festivities with us and was so gracious to watch the boys while we caught up on some sleep. So after a low-key day we filled up on a 'Halloween Feast' (aka my most ghetto dinner of the year) and went trick or treating. 
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 Not wanting to spread croup to the entire neighborhood we did a quick lap around our street and then headed home. A caught on quickly and even said "tick a tee" at every house.
We have been so lucky to have my parents living closer and we have been seeing them about every 2-3 weeks. It is heavenly and my boys love it so much. The second they saw Papa they both ran to him and gave him big hugs. No hesitation and no 'warming-up' period. The entire weekend they just wanted to do things with him.  Thank you Dad for driving down to be with us, we loved it SO much!
 Children make holidays more fun. I'm convinced of that. It's so fun to share in the excitement and anticipation with them. Happy Halloween!