Halloween

This is my 7th Halloween here in Colorado, and for the first time EVER it wasn't 20 degrees and snowing outside when the kids all go out trick-or-treating. We had weather in the 70's all that week and I was able to sit out on my porch on Halloween night to hand out candy! It was awesome.

I bought Dylan a cute little bear costume for him to wear this year. After several attempts at putting it on and MANY, MANY tears, I decided it wasn't worth the drama. The costume had a head part to it and when I put it on him you would have thought that someone had just hurt him very badly the way he cried. He has never loved things on his head, he wouldn't keep a hat on this summer for anything. So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. We decided to give it one last try on the morning of our trunk-or-treat. Paul came in the room carrying the costume, and before he even got near Dylan, he started screaming and running the other way. So instead he wore some Halloween pajamas to the party. Totally lame I know, but it just wasn't worth all the screaming.

So we didn't go trick-or-treating but Dylan got his fair share of candy. He liked searching through my candy bowl and would pick out the little boxes of Nerds. He would get one for each hand and bring them to me to open. When I wouldn't open them, he would start biting/sucking on them. I ended up with 7-8 boxes of Nerds that I couldn't hand out because my little mouse had chewed through the box. I would get busy handing out candy, and before I knew it he was working on 2 more boxes. He was LOVING all the sugar!!!