Halloween is one of my all-time favorite holidays and every year I eagerly await the boys decisions on costumes. For the last few years, I have been reiterating the need to design their own costumes, stretch their imaginations and embrace Halloween for all the awesomeness that it is. My heart swelled when Hunie told me he wanted to be a blue tree with a rainbow elephant climbing up it.
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| Halloween is serious business - Dad's sketches of the pumpkins...don't worry, we didn't insert 'long squash' anywhere!! |
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| The architect was missing when the carving commenced! |
I spent all night hot-gluing, spray painting and making midnight runs to various shops to put together my piece-de-resistance. Unfortunately, Huns, for his part was rather unimpressed. In fact, his reaction made me think he had actually forgotten what he had requested or perhaps my manifestation of his vision was just so far off base that he didn’t recognize it.
Or perhaps it was just that bad. He opted to run around the neighborhood in a sweat shirt.
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| Halloween 2011 |
Admittedly I was disappointed but only for about 2.5 minutes. I always feel more ‘Mom’ when I am making or mending something for my boys. I know that is the ‘me’ part of the equation and the fun for them lies in running through the streets with friends melding imagination into the realms of reality with almost full abandon and eating more candy then I would ever independently agree to - in Hunie’s case with or without pants:
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Wardrobe malfunction had the Hunster high on candy and freezing his tail off....and lugging an enormous bag of candy ....
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| Run, Harry, Run! |
2012
Plans were to create glowing IronMan costumes however reality set in three days before Halloween. I succombed to store bought crap that cost an armload and when combined with inopportune nap time for Huns resulted in a costume that had to be tucked into his socks.....but he loved it anyway!
Tings on the other hand embraced Harry so completely, he was concerned people would be disappointed that he couldn’t really produce a patronus charm. I attempted to convey the metaphorical analogies to just his positive presence but I think it fell on deaf ears.
The kids at school reinforced his Harry persona gushing over how he was just like Harry. His alter ego was born and every morning at breakfast I was regaled with Harry Potter trivia, which also fell on deaf ears…while I was mesmerized by the earnestness in his sweet face. Love this little Harry.
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| Kindergarden Class |
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| Hunie joined into Ting's Class Parade |
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| Pre-Trick Or Treat Party! |
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| Hunie's halloween artwork. I love the accidental expression on this cat. |
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| Huns and the girls at school |
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| Impatient boys! |
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