The original plan for Halloween this year was for me to make each boy a Star Wars costume: George wanted to be Luke Skywalker and Gus wanted to be Obi-Wan Kenobi. I had all but bought the fabric for the boots when a trip to Target changed it all. Once George saw the Darth Vader costume, that's all he wanted to be. Once Gus saw that George got a pre-made costume, that's all he wanted as well. The only Star Wars costume in his size was the bounty hunter Jango Fett, so that's what he got. Oh well - they were happy!
The best part of these costumes was that the masks meant I didn't need to convince the kids to smile for the camera :)
We had such a fun Halloween. I was able to take the day off (a perk of my new job is that on holidays, nobody cares that I'm not there!) and got to go to both boys' classroom celebrations. We missed our usual neighborhood celebration with the band and the leaf-jumping, but we loved Halloween this year! Thanks to warm temperatures and awesome neighbors, we celebrated together with four other families at our friends Joanne and Brian's house across the street with pizza, snacks, beer, and then all went trick or treating together. After trick-or-treating around one block, we all came back to their house and sat outside with a fire pit, more beer, and the kids watched a movie downstairs. It was a great night and I hope we can do it every year! (it might be a blizzard on Halloween next year, though).
Happy Halloween!
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