Halloween

We had a great Halloween despite the rain. It was not just any ordinary Halloween, it was also our last day of school before tracking off for a month. That meant Spirit Rally and a minimum day! The spirit rally was great, first grade won the reverse pie toss with Brooke hitting Dr. Roundtree right smack in the face with a pie she threw over her shoulder. Then we got home and got ready for Halloween.

Tyler's school hosted a harvest dance the previous week, which was a costume party and dance. For that he decided he wanted to be a skeleton so I quickly threw together a costume made of glow sticks. The costume was awesome, but it didn't get dark as early as I had thought it would so I tried making the kids stay inside the dance party area as long as possible to get the most out of his costume. Of course, they preferred playing outside because it's not every day you get to run around your campus in a costume but outside it wasn't quite dark yet. Note to self, glowsticks on costumes only work in dark places!

For the real Halloween, he was Boba Fett who is a character from Star Wars. Boba was the guy responsible for freezing Han Solo in carbonite I think, and his son is Jango Fett which is what Gavin was supposed to be. But Gavin once again insisted on wearing his pirate costume. That thing was passed down to Tyler three years ago from Cousin Jordan so it's quite old. He did promise this would be his last year wearing the pirate costume but I think I'm going to have to hide it to make sure of that. Boba and Jango Fett have jet packs. Papa Curt got these costumes for the kidlets and we made sure they'd fit next year too, seeing as how much they love to dress up as Star Wars characters. So now we've got a choice of Storm Trooper, Darth Vader, Jango Fett or Boba Fett. Gramma visited for her first Halloween with us. She took us from house to house and even tried to get Tyler to go to the houses with scary decorations, but he refused. He'd stand firmly on the sidewalk watching Gavin and Gramma go up to the scary houses. Heck, he can't even listen to me read his child-friendly Halloween books he gets so scared. Poor child!