Halloween was an adventure. Many have heard my tale of Noah's costume(s). For those who haven't, here is how it went.
I dropped the ball and didn't order a costume for Noah ahead of time. He said he wanted to be Batman or Superman. Easy enough, I thought.
I went to Party City about a week before Halloween and the costumes were so cheap looking. The Superman costume was ridiculous. Superman is blue and red, not blue and burgundy. All I kept thinking was someone overseas was making this costume and saw "red" and thought burgundy looked close enough. No dice.
A few days went by and I realized he still didn't have a costume so I went out to Target. The costumes were even worse there. I did find the most adorable candy corn costume, though! So, that went in the cart. I happened to find a Batman dress-up costume in the toy aisle so I also snatched that up. It said it would fit kids from 4 - 10. Hmmm...that's a wide range, I thought. I was hoping there was something adjustable on it. Ummmm, no. It literally looked like a garbage bag to me when we opened it up. I'm getting ahead of myself. I came home with the candy corn costume and showed it to Noah. His response? "I asked for Batman or Superman. I don't want to be a candy corn." I redeemed myself with the Batman costume but there was no way I could send him to school in it.
We hyped the candy corn all night and Halloween morning and convinced him to wear it to school. Well, I dropped him off and EVERY little boy in his class was a Superhero. Boy did I feel like the.worst.mom.ever! I walked out of the classroom in tears because he looked so sad in his candy corn costume. Thankfully, Party City is very close to his school. I raced over there and, by the grace of God, found a really cute Spiderman costume. I ran back to his school and changed him into Spiderman and felt so much better. The ironic part is that a few days later he said to Rob, "Why did Mommy come and change me out of my candy corn costume? I liked being a candy corn." Go figure.
Next year, Rob is in charge of costumes.
We had fun trick-or-treating at Grams' and Nana's houses and Noah enjoyed passing out candy to the neighborhood kids. Noelle hated her pumpkin costume and I didn't get a decent picture of her in it. It will be fun to dress her up next year, though!
Here are a few pictures from our Halloween:
Noah's Batman costume (the mask is the only part that fit)!
Here is Noelle after she ditched her costume. I dug through the eight crates of Noah's baby clothes until I found his Halloween sleeper from when he was a baby! We haven't been able to use many of his clothes for Noelle, obviously, so it was exciting to be able to reuse something. I really need to go through everything and weed out what I want to give to family/friends and donate the rest. It is such a daunting task though...
Our precious Spiderman (boy was it painful teaching him the Spidey Signal...his little hands couldn't quite get it right!):
I'm not really sure what my adorable little family was doing with Nana's laptop but they look like they were having a good time. I'm guessing Noah was playing Nana's slot machine game. Noelle even looks pretty interested!
Here's another random picture but it tells a story. We bought a ton of candy but we also put out a box of Welch's fruit snacks because there are a lot of really young kids in our neighborhood and we thought the parents might appreciate that instead of candy. We were shocked at how many of the kids bypassed the candy and went straight for the fruit snacks. Good thing we buy them in bulk!
Happy Halloween...a few weeks late!!!
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