This was the first official Halloween to go Trick or Treating. I can not remember exactly what we did last year, but I know that it did not involve walking around our old neighborhood where you had a higher chance of scoring a drug deal than candy. So around 7:00, we suited up the boys, grabbed our pumpkins and headed out. Before they left I wanted to get some pictures of them in their costumes. I had set Ben down on the sidewalk to snap some shots but couldn't find the golf bag. I finally spotted it with Joshy who was counting the clubs in the bag. What a smart ninja. Oh and yes, I realize that the ninja is minus one face mask but Joshy has never been a fan of things that cover up this face. So, he is just a ninja of the knight variety. All he cared about were the weapons anyway. Well, and apparently how many clubs there were in the bag.
I really had no need to get the clubs from Joshy because Ben had no interest in playing around with them. He was much more interested in leaves. I give you Ben and the Leaf in three acts.
Act 1: Acquire the leaf
Act 2: Insert the leaf
Act 3: Did he just put it all the way in his mouth? Crap.
We never were able to get it out. Score one for the roughage. 
Tina wore her Witch costume, complete with ghost and fan to keep it inflated. Jess asked Joshy, "What is aunt B?". She is a witch. "Right now or all the time?". All the time. Way to set up the slam.
As I was going through Jessi's pictures at the end of the night, I came across the following. The ninja killing the mouse. Wonder how the daycare will respond when he tries to recreate the shot at school. Um, I think your child is trying to kill the other children. Oh, it's okay, he's just pretending.
Our new neighborhood is the perfect place to Trick or Treat. There are so many young families with children Joshy's age. We were part of many trekking up and down the streets. Plus, I got to hand out candy to real children in all types of costume. Not just teenagers with basketball jerseys and pillow cases. Once we ran out of candy, we all just sat around and watched The Great Pumpkin while Joshy tried to con his way into more candy. It was a good night.
2 comments:
How fun! I LOVE Ben's costume. I know that would be my Dad's choice of costume if I had a son to dress up for Halloween :)
Looks like you'll had a great time.
Grandma was showing a couple of pictures to me of you'll going trick or treating many, many years ago. Your Mom made your outfits..She is so talented in sewing..
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