Halloween 2013

Halloween was relatively uneventful this year.  We skipped the neighborhood trunk-or-treat (more on that in another post).

So really, the kids wore their costumes only once this year.  On the holiday itself.

I started the day off by helping out with the Halloween party at Elsa's preschool.  We made witch hat treats out of fudge stripe cookies, and Hershey's kisses.  We played Halloween BINGO.  And we did a craft.
Elsa wanted to be a monkey for Halloween this year.  And I may have had a little influence in that choice, considering that I purchased a monkey costume on clearance last year for $1.97.  Thank you, Elsa, for always being cooperative, and cheerful about it too!

Pretty much, the day after Halloween last year; Reagan declared that she wanted to be a Pink T-Rex for Halloween in 2013.  She never wavered from that desire.  So, over the summer, I found a cheap-o pink T-Rex costume on eBay, from a seller out of China.  The costume only came in adult sizes.  The model wearing the costume in a picture was a petite Asian girl, so I figured that I'd be safe ordering Reagan an adult size small.

The costume showed up, and it was the perfect size for her height; but it needed a few alterations around the waist.  

My sewing machine needs to have the tension adjusted.  I don't know when I'll get around to having it fixed???

So, I opted to take the costume up to a neighbor friend, and I asked her to do a quick alteration job.

She called me a few days later.  Very apologetic.  She said that she had been talking on the phone when she was using the serger on Reagan's costume, and that she had accidentally cut a hole in the back of the costume. 

I may have mentioned how little I care for Halloween...  :)

I told my neighbor not to worry too much about it.  Sew up the hole.  I'm sure it will be fine.

But Shanel (neighbor friend) is a perfectionist.

She showed up at my house the following week with an amazing pink T-Rex costume that she had sewn from scratch.

It was awesome!  Reagan loved it: 

 For Cohen's costume, I found a pair of Superman PJ's on clearance last year.  Easy enough. He was Superman.

In the evening I put a Cosmo the Cougar fleece costume on over the Superman PJ's, and sent Cohen out in to the cold night, to trick-or-treat.  He had two costumes.

Since we have lived in this house, there has only been one Halloween when we have had a large amount of trick-or-treaters come by, and that was the year when it was pouring rain.

In the past year they have built a lot of new houses near us.  I was hopeful that we'd see a lot of kids this year.
I bought a box of Halloween candy that had 300 pieces.
The day of, I was considering going out and buying more.  I was really worried about having enough candy!

In the end, I think I answered the door a grand total of 15 times.  Granted, there were usually several kids at the door each time.  But we had a ridiculous amount of candy left over at the end of the night.
Sigh.
And guess who ate a lot of it?  Really, all of us.  But I had my fair share.
Yep.  I'm definitely not Halloween's biggest fan.