Halloween
Whew!
Well, there's another Halloween down!
Weeks ago David found a Cars race car driver's outfit and decided this was his costume. And then he proceeded to change his mind a dozen times! Earlier this week he decided to be a knight, so he donned his plastic armor breastplate and arm guards (thank you, Dollar Store!) and took up his shiny plastic sword. But he was quite concerned that he didn't have a ''knight mask.'' So I folded and cut a big sheet of aluminum foil so that one piece covered his head and another piece went across his face, with a large slit for his eyes. This was deeply satisfactory, and he and Lauren (in a purple tutu, big purple hat, arm guards and sword) marched out to the jungle gym to do battle with the ''mean old dragon.''
This morning he couldn't decide what to be. In stark contrast, Lauren has steadfastly declared her burning desire to be ''a dancer'' for...oh, forever, I guess. So this morning she joyfully threw open her dress-up trunk and pulled out her sequin-bedecked purple tutu. Since it was only 50 degrees and was bound to get colder by nightfall (this is nothing compared to the snowy Halloweens I remember!), we paired the tutu with a turtleneck and then topped it off with her white ''dancing shoes.''
By afternoon we had gone all day with one kid in costume and one not, and I took them to their favorite place to eat: Fazoli's. While we were there they fired up a kid's Halloween party which I had completely forgotten about. Princess the Clown arrived to do face painting, and of course the kids wanted to get this done. David declared, ''I will be a race car driver for Halloween. I not changing again from that!'' So with that he marches off to the face-painting and comes back...painted with a mustache, goatee, stubble, eye patch and a bandana. ''Mommy, look, a pirate!'' he beams. Um...well, OK, I've got
*checks watch*
about two hours to come up with a pirate getup. (This wasn't entirely impossible as I am a big believer in dress-up clothes and he already has a few pirate accessories just for fun.)
When Lauren was up to have her face done, I carefully intervened and suggested that she was a dancer. She came back with beautifully coordinated swirls on her forehead and down her cheeks, done in the perfect shades of purple and light blue that she was wearing, and topped off with sparkly, lavender ''jewel'' in the center of her forehead.
The next stop was Target for trick or treat candy for the neighborhood kids and a pair of warm tights for Lauren, then to Michael's for the very lucky floral department purchase.
It was getting dark by then so we headed home.
David insisted on wearing his Halloween T-shirt from Grandma Jean, which I topped with one of his heavy sweatshirts. I fished out one of my white shirts and put it on top, both puffing out the sleeves and rolling them up. I put him in heavy sweatpants, then put black pants on top, and tucked the legs into a pair of slightly-too-large black snow boots I fished out of the closet, donated to us this summer by a neighbor. Then I got out his pirate stuff, and put the black, plastic vest on him and put one of my thick, black belts around his waist. (I had to fasten it with a clothespin in the back, since it was so big for him!) The tri-corner black hat has a terrible time staying on, so I fetched a black sleeping mask from our room and put it on his head like a girl's headband, and attached the hat to it with some of Lauren's tiny hair clips. I slipped the plastic sai into a loop on the vest, and tucked the sword under the belt. Then we put the pirate ''hook'' over his hand, and I got the Michael's bag and pulled out a fake, green parrot. It was meant to be put into floral displays and wreaths and such, so it had wires on its feet. I wrapped those around the top of his vest and used a few more of Lauren's hair clips to hold it in place.
Lauren was much simpler...I put her into the heavy tights and put her lavender ''riding hood'' on over her outfit, and put her butterfly wings on. She was good to go.
Daddy got home just as we were putting the finishing touches on David, so we went trick-or-treating almost immediately. We hit our block and half of two more. It was about 40 degrees or so, and Lauren was about to freeze to death, but she wouldn't give up. They got oodles of candy...after about the 5th house David took to exclaiming ''I LOVE this!'' after every other stop.
I ended up carrying Lauren home, and we ate dinner with (of course!) candy for dessert. Nobody would let me wash their faces before bed, either, so this will undoubtedly take several days to wear off!
Well, there's another Halloween down!
Weeks ago David found a Cars race car driver's outfit and decided this was his costume. And then he proceeded to change his mind a dozen times! Earlier this week he decided to be a knight, so he donned his plastic armor breastplate and arm guards (thank you, Dollar Store!) and took up his shiny plastic sword. But he was quite concerned that he didn't have a ''knight mask.'' So I folded and cut a big sheet of aluminum foil so that one piece covered his head and another piece went across his face, with a large slit for his eyes. This was deeply satisfactory, and he and Lauren (in a purple tutu, big purple hat, arm guards and sword) marched out to the jungle gym to do battle with the ''mean old dragon.''
This morning he couldn't decide what to be. In stark contrast, Lauren has steadfastly declared her burning desire to be ''a dancer'' for...oh, forever, I guess. So this morning she joyfully threw open her dress-up trunk and pulled out her sequin-bedecked purple tutu. Since it was only 50 degrees and was bound to get colder by nightfall (this is nothing compared to the snowy Halloweens I remember!), we paired the tutu with a turtleneck and then topped it off with her white ''dancing shoes.''
By afternoon we had gone all day with one kid in costume and one not, and I took them to their favorite place to eat: Fazoli's. While we were there they fired up a kid's Halloween party which I had completely forgotten about. Princess the Clown arrived to do face painting, and of course the kids wanted to get this done. David declared, ''I will be a race car driver for Halloween. I not changing again from that!'' So with that he marches off to the face-painting and comes back...painted with a mustache, goatee, stubble, eye patch and a bandana. ''Mommy, look, a pirate!'' he beams. Um...well, OK, I've got
*checks watch*
about two hours to come up with a pirate getup. (This wasn't entirely impossible as I am a big believer in dress-up clothes and he already has a few pirate accessories just for fun.)
When Lauren was up to have her face done, I carefully intervened and suggested that she was a dancer. She came back with beautifully coordinated swirls on her forehead and down her cheeks, done in the perfect shades of purple and light blue that she was wearing, and topped off with sparkly, lavender ''jewel'' in the center of her forehead.
The next stop was Target for trick or treat candy for the neighborhood kids and a pair of warm tights for Lauren, then to Michael's for the very lucky floral department purchase.
It was getting dark by then so we headed home.
David insisted on wearing his Halloween T-shirt from Grandma Jean, which I topped with one of his heavy sweatshirts. I fished out one of my white shirts and put it on top, both puffing out the sleeves and rolling them up. I put him in heavy sweatpants, then put black pants on top, and tucked the legs into a pair of slightly-too-large black snow boots I fished out of the closet, donated to us this summer by a neighbor. Then I got out his pirate stuff, and put the black, plastic vest on him and put one of my thick, black belts around his waist. (I had to fasten it with a clothespin in the back, since it was so big for him!) The tri-corner black hat has a terrible time staying on, so I fetched a black sleeping mask from our room and put it on his head like a girl's headband, and attached the hat to it with some of Lauren's tiny hair clips. I slipped the plastic sai into a loop on the vest, and tucked the sword under the belt. Then we put the pirate ''hook'' over his hand, and I got the Michael's bag and pulled out a fake, green parrot. It was meant to be put into floral displays and wreaths and such, so it had wires on its feet. I wrapped those around the top of his vest and used a few more of Lauren's hair clips to hold it in place.
Lauren was much simpler...I put her into the heavy tights and put her lavender ''riding hood'' on over her outfit, and put her butterfly wings on. She was good to go.
Daddy got home just as we were putting the finishing touches on David, so we went trick-or-treating almost immediately. We hit our block and half of two more. It was about 40 degrees or so, and Lauren was about to freeze to death, but she wouldn't give up. They got oodles of candy...after about the 5th house David took to exclaiming ''I LOVE this!'' after every other stop.
I ended up carrying Lauren home, and we ate dinner with (of course!) candy for dessert. Nobody would let me wash their faces before bed, either, so this will undoubtedly take several days to wear off!
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