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Better late than never, here’s the deets on our Halloween festivities.

First and foremost, Lloyd wore and LOVED his costume.  I absolutely delight in making costumes for our family and friends, but there was definitely a little bit of worry slaving away on Lloyd’s costume thinking that there was maybe a 12% chance he would wear any of it.  Last year he was excited about being a dinosaur, but when it came time to draw up the hood and stomp around – he was miserable : (

So when Lloyd said he wanted to be a blue dinosaur again this year – I was a little nervous (to quote son #1).  He said this year he didn’t want any spikes, but rather stripes, and how about a tail and claws and toe claws, too?

I made every component and had it finished in time for his school costume party which was the Monday before Halloween.   I put him in the sweatshirt and he whined a little.  I took him to our largest mirror and lifted up the hood so he could see his big sharp teeth.  He smiled a little and I lowered the hood saying maybe we could lift it up again when we got to school.  He immediately objected, “Can I leave my hood up PLEASE?!”  Ab-so-freakin-lutely!!!  I was beaming.   Next came the tail and the claws and he was SO HAPPY but not happier than me.   The days before when we had been talking about wearing our costumes to school he asked if he could ROAR at all of the kids and we said that sounded like an awesome idea.  At school boy-oh-boy did he roar and he kept it up for a solid week.  Instead of a coat, he wore his costume sweatshirt everyday until it got too cold here in November and we upgraded to a real coat.

SO MUCH FUN.

As for actual Halloween, Lloyd trick-or-treated with his buddy and cousin Logan, as well as Grandma and Vikki and Baby MacKenzie.  They had a great time and we’ve been using the candy to help reward and motivate potty-training, which has been going great, but more on that some other time…

As for the rest of the family, Henry was Yoda.  He didn’t mind his costume one bit, which was also delightful.

And Greg was Luke Skywalker from the scene in StarWars where he wears Yoda on his back. When I came home with his light-saber he was just about as happy as any little boy getting a big glowing toy.

And I was a skeleton.

Hope you all had wonderful Halloweens and that you’re looking forward to delicious Thanksgivings!