Halloween

Last year after Halloween, I bought a pirate costume at Old Navy for 75% off! I was so proud of myself. I stuck it in the closet ... and then nearly forgot about it this year. As Halloween was approaching, Luke was getting the usual question, "What are you going to be for Halloween?" I tried preparing him, telling him that he was going to be a pirate. But he would always answer the question differently, sometimes saying he was going to be a scary monster. Whatever.

On Halloween morning, we were getting ready for school, and we'd had the pirate costume on for a total of 60 seconds before he wanted it off. (Good thing I only paid about $4 for it)!! He says he wants to wear his Woody costume. Rewind a couple of weeks, we were at a children's clothing sale and I saw 2 costumes - Woody and Buzz - for $2 each. I thought that would be fun to dress up in and wear around the house. I never dreamed he would want to wear it for Halloween. If I'd known that, I would have gotten him the accessories to go with it - a cowboy hat, maybe a horse on a stick, etc. So anyways, he wore Woody to school and then over to my office to trick or treat there. By the time we got home, he wanted to be Buzz. So we put the Buzz costume on to walk around the neighborhood in. (I never got a picture of him in the pirate costume or the Woody costume - oh well).

So in one day, the kid wore 3 different Halloween costumes. I resisted the urge to buy a Halloween costume on sale after Halloween this year since who knows what he will want next year! Instead the day after Halloween, we were at WalMart and I found these Batman pajamas, a mask and gloves, all for less than $12! He wouldn't take them off for the rest of the weekend.

"I'm Batman!"