Halloween

Who doesn't love Halloween? This year I had a few ideas of what I wanted the boys to dress up as. I was thinking "Winnie the Pooh" characters, or characters from "Toy Story", so I took them to the store to find their costumes. While in the costume section, I was persistently showing Michael a "Woody" costume, asking him if he would like it. He looked over and said, "No, I want a chicken!" I looked over to see a child's full covering chicken costume. He insisted, and since it was cheaper than the other costumes, I agreed. So, the boys were as Michael would say, "Giant Chickens". These hooded costumes were loved, the hood was never taken off. They would flap their arms while making cluck sounds, and would hug each other, bringing them to the floor and would yell. "Cock Fight"! (Can you guess where they learned that)


Before Halloween, through the early childhood PTA, I took the boys to a nursing home. They were a hit, because not only was it one big chicken, no, not only two big chickens, but three big chickens. The elderly people loved it. One nurse, seeing that I could probably use a hand, took William around to the patients. They loved and hugged William, and the nurse said that there were a lot of tender moments as these people who had lost their memory suddenly recalled that they once had babies of their own.

This year was the boys first experience with trick-or-treating. We usually would just sit on the porch, all dressed up, and hand out candy. This way they got to see more costumes, learn to share, and bring home less candy. This year Todd took them around our street to show the neighbors. The first couple of houses, immediately after receiving his candy, Michael would run back to our front porch while his dad talked to our neighbor. I had to keep telling Michael that if he wanted more candy he'd have to stay with his dad. Finally after 3 houses, he caught on and understood the process. The boys were very polite and said "Thank you" after every candy, and patiently waited until they were home to eat their candy.