Halloween and Fighting Foo

This year Halloween was nearly a month long celebration (in fact most holidays and birthdays are becoming a month long celebration, but that is another story). John Grayson received his Super-Man costume in late September and proceeded to wear so frequently that it was beginning to have holes and wear in the knees and elbows. Most importantly, at least to John Grayson, was the fact that he was keenly aware of the fact that people at other houses would give him candy upon his request. We practiced our ‘Trick-or-Treats’ and ‘thank you’s quite a bit leading up to the big day.

On Halloween Day we were able to get John Grayson and Delia to pose for a few pictures. As both are in that squirmish age (3mos – 6 years) it took nearly 50 photos to capture a few good ones. Thank goodness for digital cameras. While Delia was unbelievably cute in her Kangaroo costume, she did not wear it that long as it was nearly 80 degrees this year. That costume is much better suited for the Midwestern Halloweens I had growing up (snow and freezing temperatures).

When the time finally came to ‘trick-or-treat’ John Grayson rushed out of the house, but then became quite pensive as he started to approach each house. While he was fully prepared to have somebody give him candy, he was not prepared for those people to make it a scary experience. Thankfully most of our neighbors recognized the fear in his eyes as he approached their homes and did not scare him too much. After hitting maybe 15 homes in 20 minutes, JGray decided he was done and wanted to go home.

We sat on the porch handing out candy to all of the other kids for about an hour when John Grayson then announced, ‘Ok Daddy, I’m ready to get more candy’. As the rest of the neighborhood began to wind down, John Grayson and I headed out again (this time it was raining a bit) to get more candy. For the next half hour we went from house to house, this time much more bold in our endeavor, and ended up with quite the bounty of candy. It was far past his bedtime when we finished, but I figured that day light savings time would more than make up for a little ‘bad’ parenting.

Here are some pictures from Halloween:

The boys were in charge of carving the jack-o-lantern

While the boys were busy carving, Delia played with the pumpkin "guts"

John and JGray's scary pumpkin

Delia, the kangaroo, and Daddy before trick-or-treating

JGray was a very handsome Superman

Mommy with Superman and her little kangaroo

Much inspired by his time as Superman, he continued to fight many forms of evil, including Foo. The other night I was playing some music and I told him the band was the Foo Fighters, he proceeded to show me how he would fight Foo. While it was a quick fight, the celebration was priceless.