I remember as a kid dressing up for Halloween and heading to school having a party at school before heading home. As we walked home from school we would start our trick or treating as we made our way back to our house. When we arrived home we dropped our school books and the candy we had already gotten and headed back out again for an entire night of trick or treating. I didn’t think anything could get better than those days, until now.
In all those toy boxes we received from a friend, whose name is John, was a dragon costume. The costume was a nice one from Disney and I’m sure was very expensive for whoever first bought the outfit. Little Man took a liking to it right away and ran around the house roaring when he tried it onto see if it would fit. We thought the costume might be too big for him this year but luckily we tried it and Mr. grows like a weed and fit into the costume just fine. Since he was already an engineer for the Halloween party, we decided he could be the dragon for trick or treating.
Halloween was a very hectic day to say the least. I had worked the night before and arrived home around 6 am, slept until 11 am and when I got up, the fun started. After running a few quick errands, we headed over to Baley’s Grandparents house for his first doorbell of the day. We got Little Man out of the costume and into the Dragon costume rang the doorbell and they were very happy to see him. Then it was back out of the costume so he could fit in the car seat. We repeated this at Grandma Rosie’s and Grandpa Jim’s, Grandma Ruth and Grandpa Rick’s, and then it was on to our Church for Trunk or Treat where Auntie Jea Jea and Mimi met us.
We then headed out to Baley’s house for some good old fashioned trick or treating. It was just as I had remembered as a kid, the streets were filled with kids running from house to house and people answered their doors with a smile and they loved to see the kid’s costumes. Walking Little guy around and seeing him so happy as he and Baley went from house to house was truly better than the bags of candy I filled as a kid.
Just before Halloween we started Little Man saying, “BOO” he took to it fairly well and would run around the house scaring everyone. His talking has started to improve and more words are coming, in, out dar for car and several others and he is now trying to say words. We’ve started him saying Ho Ho HO and we usually get HO HO and he does point at Santa saying HO HO when he sees him on TV. Hopefully Santa will get a better reception this year than he did last year.
