Pumpkins

It's been 10 days since Halloween and I'm just getting around to posting. I guess I had to wait for the sugar high to wear off. Both of the boys were pumpkins. Really I was hoping we could do something like fireman and dalmation or even use on of the five million dress up pirate costumes we have in the dress up bin, but each time I asked Connor what he wanted to be for Halloween, he'd say, "A scary pumpkin". I tried again and again to give him the chance to pick something else, but he stuck to his story.


I thought that I'd just jet over to the local costume
shop and grab a couple of pumpkin costumes,
(beause of course little brother wants to be the same thing that big brother is) but imagine my surprise when I found that the only pumpkin costumes that are available, are for smaller children. The children Connor's age all want to be Jedi or skeletons so pumpkin costumes in his size... are only to be found on the internet. Truly the idea of just ordering a pumpkin costume is appealing until you figure in the shipping costs and realize that it may or may not be here for Halloween. And spending over $50.00 on something that might arrive the second week of November just not going to work for me.

So I went to the local craft store with 20 bucks and a little determination and wound up with a couple of costumes that were kinda of a pain to make but looked oh so cute on the kids. And the homemade factor was fantastic. At first I was a little sad because the costumes might look a little bit wonky because they weren't made in China, but they ended up being pretty damn cute. Once we wrapped a green glow stick around the stem on their hats they were set to trick or treat. Jorma took them out trick or treating and I sat with the neighbor and gave glow bracelets to all of the little goblins that stopped by. The boys racked up the candy which was promply "taxed" by mommy. Then they gorged for three days after which they picked 10 treats each and then left out the rest of their candy for the halloween witch. The halloween witch took the candy and left a toy for the boys. I'm not sure that the boys appreciate the Halloween witch, but I think the people that work with Jorma are probably quite fond of her.