Trick-or-Treat

Joshua's preschool had a "Creation" party this past Wednesday. Children were to come dressed up in their costumes related to this theme. You can see Joshua wore his lion costume, but he refused to keep the hood up. Here is his class all together, thanks to the mom of the little girl who came dressed up as a flower (to the right of Mrs. Ford who is wearing the cow costume).

 

When Joshua started playing with his lions a lot, I ordered him this lion costume on Ebay. I had already gotten Caleb's giraffe costume on Craig's List, and I thought the two went together. I thought of the animal theme from our various trips to the different animal places we've been to recently like Lake Tobias or the Philly Zoo. Caleb looked so cute in his costume, but Joshua recently had a growth spurt, so the 3T didn't fit. I decided to order another one in a 4T. Only, when it got here, it didn't fit too well either (length-wise in the torso), and Joshua was already anti-lion costume at this point from his traumatic experience trying on the first one. 

So, when I saw a Thomas costume posted for $5 the night before Halloween on Craig's List, I decided to go for it. I really wanted to see the kids trick-or-treat and be happy and not miserable while doing so. Joshua was thrilled to be his favorite train, and Caleb was happy once Joshua was happy. 

We walked around our neighborhood, making it to a dozen or so houses before the boys were done and asked to go home. Caleb walked at first and then decided he wanted to be held by Dadda. He LOVED his pumpkin bucket (as did Joshua) but he wasn't so excited to have people put things in it. Joshua, on the other hand, happily said "trick-or-treat" as we went up to the houses and then got super shy when people answered their door. He said it to about three people and the rest he just said "thank you" after they put candy (or pretzels, etc) in his bucket. I really thought it was nice when people had things other than chocolate for the kids. We also ran into the boys' babysitter who was out with her parents and her younger brother and sister. 

Afterward, we went to my mom's house to 'trick-or-treat' since we still had lots of time until trick-or-treat was over and we only bought three bags of candy (figuring the boys would be done before the rest of the neighborhood...we just didn't think it would be that early). Grandma gave the boys animal crackers in their buckets. :) Joshua begged to play in her basement, so Grandma said she would enjoy having him stay an hour and she'd bring him home. We handed out candy after we got back, and Joshua came home around 8 pm. We put both boys to bed and curled up to one of the most stupid scary movies we've ever seen.

Happy Halloween!