2006
every day is halloween
maura @ 8:29 pm
Let’s start off the month with a Halloweeny post, shall we? With a crunchy link-rich coating! Mmmmmmmmm.
1. You will laugh and laugh at the easiest costume evar.
2. Those fine folks at Penny Arcade have some incredibly cute pictures of their kids dressed as video game characters (scroll down for pictures). Only a NERD would do that! Oh, wait…
3. Gus went as a skeleton. While it was just a normal skeleton costume, he did go around screaming and trying to bite our heads*, just like the ReDead in Wind Waker, the video game we were all obsessed with recently. I think they are really mummies, but he likes to think they are skeletons.
* As far as enemies go, the ReDead are kind of annoying. They scream real loud which momentarily paralyzes Link, then they bite his head. He doesn’t take much damage, and they’re easy enough to run around, leaving one to think what is the point of them anyway?
4. We only trick-or-treated on about 4 sparsely-bepumpkined blocks in our ‘hood, but somehow Gus really did come away with much more candy than last year**. GOOD candy, too, tons of chocolate and only a few weirdly-flavored lollipops. Jonathan and I regaled him with stories about how when we were little, we only got ONE tootsie roll (or equivalent) from each house. (As we trick-or-treated in the snow! Uphill! With no shoes!)
** About a month ago, out of nowhere Gus said to me “Mommy, I’m going to need a bigger bag for Halloween this year, because we will need to go to more houses because I am bigger and I need more candy.” Full justification, who could argue with that?
5. And of course, after making such a big deal out of the whole sugar-dusted chocolate-coated day, Gus is now hoarding his candy. He refused to eat any of it today! More for the sneaky parents, I say.
P.S. NOT that I am doing this NaBloPoMo thang for potential prizes or anything, but would that I DO win something, I’d love it to be one of these swell shirts. How sweet would it be to have a hand-embroidered “N is for nerd” shirt?! Or maybe “L is for librarian”. Dude.
3 comments on “every day is halloween”
Thanks man! My mom came last weekend and we had a date, and of course we have Gus’ Halloween candy to steal, always a good time.
What did your kids dress as?
I got my brother the Baghdad Oilers tee. I’m going back and forth on the “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong” one.
http://www.nomas-nyc.com/regseason_shirts.html
More here: http://www.murketing.com/journal/?p=280
Love the easiest costume ever!
Happy Anniversary to you and J.