Benjamin has been looking forward to Halloween since last Halloween. He likes to talk about ghosts and pumpkins and especially candy. Wow does that kid love candy. Really what kid doesn't but to see that euphoria take hold upon seeing a bag of candy it is something to witness.
We have been talking about costumes for a while, for a bit we were going to go as superheros, then we were going to be ghosts and ghostbusters, then skeletons but at the last minute Jimmy was too crabby and tired and Ben defaulted to last years costume as a ghost.
That didn't stop me from dressing them in the skeleton jammies and forcing them to smile together. Ben is so over this whole smiling cutely for the camera phase of life. That's ok.
We had a lot of fun last year with Kate and Claude and Abigail so did a repeat. Again, they blew us out of the water with a family themed and coordinated outfit so I quickly removed a spider decoration and put it on my head.
I was OK with Ben going as a lion because it was the first really cold night and he could easily fit his winter coat and pants under the warm suit.
He was better at going to the houses this year and actually said Trick or Treat and Thank You.
And he even found one of our neighbors who was a lion tamer with no lion to be tamed.
Before things got all cold and October rolled into the coldest November in 30 years we had our last warm bout of Indian summer, luckily it happened to be on a Monday when I was home so I decided why not have a picnic. After an entire summer of warm weather and never actually loading everyone and lunch up to a blanket in the yard. Look at the joy on Ben's face.
Things improved when I made a pile of leaves for him to play in. The back has TONS of leaves but we are neglectful dog parents and Portos gets to go out and do his thing and we clean it every time we mow. Well, we haven't mowed for a while and brown leaves hide the other brown surprises in the back so those are not safe leaves for playing.
Jimmy wasn't too sure what to make of it all, but saw Ben having fun so decided it wasn't too bad.
We all chose our decorations this year. Ben chose his when he was still heavily in his going to be a ghost phase. We did much better than last year, we had them done at least four days before Halloween.
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