Alright, friends. If we didn’t see you trick or treating this year, here’s the skinny.
Dekker was going to be pizza. He had already decided. He was pizza in grade one, and it was hilarious, and loved it. So he wanted to be that again. But, in digging through our pile of dress up clothes, he came across a skeleton costume. He was SOLD. He made a mask to go with it, but that got broken at school :/ He was pretty discouraged, so before we went out, I scratched together some dark grey liquid lipstick, some liners, and some eye shadows, and helped him do up his face. It was a pretty juvenile special effects makeup job, haha, but he was thrilled! 💀
Laela was digging through our costumes and was trying to princess dress after princess dress. For whatever reason, they weren’t hitting the mark for her. She didn’t care for the animal costumes or anything along those lines, either. She tried on the muscle man costume and really rocked it! But she said it was for boys. I told her women can have muscles too, but she wasn’t feeling it. And then she dug out the fireman costume, and that was it. That’s what she wanted to be. She came home from school saying someone had made fun of her costume, and that it was for boys. I told her that was too bad, and that women could absolutely fight fires! I started to list off all the things that are stereotypical boy things that women were perfectly capable of doing, too. When I said “Women can be…” Laela interrupted me and said “Strong!” I LOVED that!!! Before we tricked or treated, I dusted some dark eye shadow on her face to look all sooty and she was good to go! 👩🚒
Rowan opted to be a big fuzzy tiger this year. Last year he had wanted nothing to do with a costume, and this year he was INTO it! He picked it almost immediately and it was simply decided. No ifs ands or buts about it. He would be a tiger. He even let me make his face up! It was pretty smeared by the end of it, but he got a little brown nose, big brows, some cheek dots, and whiskers. He was super happy with his costume, though he ditched the hood almost immediately. His hair was wild enough. It still worked. 🐯
Solomon went for the other soft animal onesie we had on hand. He chose to be a giraffe. And it was a good thing he dressed warm underneath because that thing was it’s own wedgie, hahaha! It was definitely too short in the body, but the snuggly layers underneath made him comfortable. He was not, however, comfortable with the hood. He wanted to wear it, but it made life getting in and out of the van pretty challenging. He couldn’t ever see where he was going. By the end of it, Brady was carrying him more than he was walking on his own. And not even because he was tired of walking, but always holding the big giraffe nose up and out of the way. But it was terribly cute. He was happy to be cozy and to be a giraffe. 🦒
Waverly has fewer costumes to choose from, but the ONE that fit her this year is my FAVORITE costume we own. She was SO excited as the kids dug through the tubs and bags of dress up clothes, but when I handed this one to her, she was SOLD. She screamed and shook it madly at us to put it on her. Thats how she became the sweetest little pineapple child for the day. I tried to put makeup on her face, and she tolerated it nicely, but then smeared it like crazy and I ended up wiping it off. She didn’t need any extra glitz. She was SO cute all on her own, and a very popular trick or treater, if I do say so myself. 🍍
A group picture was next to impossible, but you can’t say I didn’t try. Haha!
We left right around 5:00, after a quick, easy supper and stayed out until shortly after 7:00. The kids did SO well! A couple of different times, they’d slip in slush or step in a deep puddle, and everyone was able to rally and keep moving. No one melted down even once! Rowan got close once, which was really too bad. There’s a house near ours that had a really startling decoration last year, and it really really scared the kids. The kids started heading to that house, and they almost turned around because they hated it SO much the year before. But Dekker and Laela pressed forward and the spider didn’t jump at them. Rowan wanted SO badly to join them but he was so scared, and that upset him a lot. But, true story, I hated that thing too, and I told him we’d still hit a couple of houses, and he wasn’t missing the last one. That seemed to help a bit.
Our last area to hit is our own little house clump, so we picked up our neighbour and her son, and we did the house clump together!! It was fun! Same time next year, guys??
It was all terribly cute, and a lot of fun. And so so SO WET! The kids faired so well. I was really pleased with the creative treats so many people gave, including things that suited Waverly! There was a lot of full sized candy/chocolate out there, which is always fun! We have a big stack of fruit to go, and lots of chips and fruit snacks. A ton of chocolate and candy as well, of course, but we’ll help the kids with it 😉 We loved the trunk or treat event set up by the churches, and the people who always go out of their way for our little family, with treat bags, or extra things beyond candy. You all know who you are.
We love our people, and we love the fun that is Halloween in our little town.