Happy Halloween

We don’t usually do much for Halloween other than take the boys trick or treating for about an hour.  I’m not one to plan out costumes months in advance or even realize it’s Halloween until about the day before.  But lately, the boys have been more aware of it; you can’t go anywhere in the city without seeing giant billboards of zombies or Elphaba from Wicked these days.   It’s actually quite annoying.  Liam is frightened easily and has frequent nightmares.  There are several stores we can’t step foot in because they’re insanely decorated for Halloween and it’s too much for him.

Since the boys knew Halloween was coming, they’ve been planning their costumes for a while.  Liam wanted desperately to be a spork.  Yes.  You read that right.  It’s funny how many people don’t even know what a spork is (a spoon and a fork combo in case you’re one of those people).  WHAT????  I have no idea where he came up with that.  AND, Gavin has been telling people for about 2 months now that he wanted to be a duck. Again, I refuse to do much when it comes to this “holiday”.  I definitely don’t sew costumes……

2 days before I had the (brilliant) idea that they should go as Albert Pujols.  (Famous baseball player, just won the World Series, plays for the St. Louis Cardinals, and we have TONS of St. Louis gear). DONE.

(Yes, that’s Liam’s medallion you see.  Albert likes bling too.)

And Tate went as a monkey. Partly because he is one, but mostly because we had that costume and it fit.  He didn’t get a say.  That’s how I roll on Halloween.

Oh, and apparently Des Moines is about the only place on earth that does Beggars Night (where the kids go out the night before Halloween).  So as of last night, Halloween is over for us.  We have bucketfuls of candy that will be rationed (or eaten by me-they got a lot of chocolate) the rest of the year.

“Sugar” is what Tate calls it.  “Mommy, when can I have another sugar?” is what I’ve been asked about every hour today.  Sigh

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