Halloween

Kevin starts thinking about what he wants to be for Halloween months in advance. This year, he gave me three top choices for costumes (after I shot down being a shark for the third year in a row). They were: Spinasaurous, Megaladon (that's a prehistoric shark), and Giant Squid. Why can't he be a pirate, or a mummy, or Superman? Until he was about three years old and taught me all about these weird creatures, I had no clue they even existed. After searching for costumes, patterns, and ideas for any of these costumes, I came up blank. I finally convinced him to be a scuba diver. After all, he does want to be a marine biologist. Scuba divers swim with sharks and squids. I made the costume for really cheap, and he ended up loving it! He's already warned me that next year he wants to be an octopus or an aligator gar - yes, that's a real fish. I didn't believe him until he showed me in a book.

Trey, on the other hand, is not a costume type of person. I can't even put most basic clothing articles on him without him finding something wrong with them. He doesn't wear hats. He hates layers of clothing. He won't wear belts. Anything g that isn't your basic t-shirt and jeans is a no-go for Trey. It's just not worth it to even try. But he is a sports freak. So I put a jersey on him and called him a basketball player. He was estatic and wore the jersey five out of the seven days before Halloween.

We had great Halloween, but I am glad that it's over. Between church, family, friends and school, the boys had 7 different occassions where they wore their costumes. I will be happy not to see those costumes anytime soon. Or ever. The night before Halloween, we had a party with their Salmon cousins at our house, which was a lot of fun. Then Halloween night, the boys went trick-or-treating and we had family over for chili and cider. Yummm...