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Halloween, Past and Present

We've had a lot of fun with Halloween costumes. In 2010 we did Star Wars...

Then last year we did Ghost Busters...

This year, I really though I was going to have trouble getting them to all dress in a theme. But Lucy got a super fancy Tinker Bell costume for her birthday, so I really wanted to go all in on the Peter Pan theme. Originally I wanted Fred to be Captain Hook, but Sam wouldn't comply unless he was given a weapon, so they switched. Wendy Darling was a tough costume to find, but thanks to Etsy I was able to get Maggie outfitted quite nicely, and for a fair price. 

Too bad her pirate brother beheaded her.

Who You Gonna Call?

I thought this might be the year that my kids finally exerted their own independence when it came to choosing Halloween costumes. Last year was really only the first year we did coordinated costumes (unless you count the grouchy ladybug and friendly ladybug costumes) but it was a triumph. It was going to be a tough act to follow.

Ever since some time in September Lucy has been going on and on about being a ghost this Halloween. I kept waiting for her to change her mind, but sometime last week I realized that wasn't going to happen. Sam, on the other hand, changed his mind about forty three times. A knight, an angry bird (but it had to be the bomb one, you know, the one that was sold out everywhere) some Jedi, some other random thing with a sword. As long as a weapon was involved he was in. I tried to convince them to dress as the charters of The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan and Alice In Wonderland to no avail. Lucy was going to be a ghost and Sam was going to have a weapon, PERIOD.

So I was online looking for Lulu's ghost costume, and when I typed 'ghost' into the search field, it also suggested searching for 'ghostbusters'. LIGHT BULB! After a few more clicks, our ensemble was complete!

Everybody wins! Sam gets a proton blaster, Lucy gets to be a ghost, Maggie gets to be the cutest damn marshmallow villain in history, and Fred, with the assistance of a little neon green fabric paint, gets to be Slimer. And since he is teething, he's pretty authentic.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Mischief and Mayhem

Last night was the infamous Mischief Night! In the past, entire sections of Camden were burned to the ground. This year, this was all they could manage.

One measly roll of TP, which looks as though it was tossed from a car. No one else on our street got hit, but I don't mind. 

Do you want to know what I do mind, though? Dressing both kids up, getting myself dressed and reasonably presentable, lugging them off in our disaster of a double stroller to Sam's school. Where Sam 100% refused to march in his class parade. Even though he begged me to take him. He even choose the parade over swim class. He cried as soon as I tried to take him out of said stroller. 

(By the way, do you know how hard it is to get a jacket on a kid in a spider costume? None of the coats we own have extra arm/leg holes. At least, they didn't when we bought them!)

Lucy, on the other hand, wanted nothing more than to march in the parade. But since she's not an actual student at the school, she wasn't allowed. So she started crying, too.

All of this mayhem and they haven't even had a single piece of candy yet. I fear for myself later in the evening.

Please Mommy, put me back in the stroller!

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