A blessing

Halloween...about a week late

This year for halloween we recycled Seths kitty-cat costume and had Jaq dress up in it, she was cute but she slept through the whole event. Lame. Not that I wanted her to peep up and have her first words be "trick or treat" or "more candy" or something but still, Halloween, I found it is much more fun with a toddler. Seth was a dinasour. Not cause he asked to be one but because it was on clearance last year. Even still it was a shock to me when I got it out to dress him up he started crying and wouldnt come near it, let alone dress up in it. I couldnt believe it. Its not like we went cold turkey on the whole dinasour bit either. We were prepping ad pumping him up for weeks about how cool dinasours are and what sounds they make. Id even make Cordelle get down on the floor and imitate dinasours daily with him (although his dinasour imitations really could gave resembled a horse like cat or some sort of a dog-bear, so I'm sure this didn't help much). I should have just rented Land Before Time. Those were some cute dinasours...nothing like this costume. Come to think about it it was pretty scary looking. Long story short, I had to bribe him into the costume and once he couldnt see the dinasours head he was cool with it.
Cordelle and I dressed up as well. We took boxes of cereal, hung them around our necks, stuck plastic knives in them with fake blood dripping down and told people we were "Cereal killers." (See pictures) Thank goodness for last minute google searches. Oh yea also I made these wicked sweet chocolate cupcakes that had eyes, and legs coming out of them (chocolate licorice) to make them look like hairy spiders. Well I was really excited to show them to Seth cause I thought he'd have fun eatin them. But once again I was wrong, but this time it wasnt my fault. Cordelle (being the mean father that he is) took one up to Seth and said, "Seth look at this HUGE spider" after which he lunged it from his hands into Seth's face and growled. Needless to say Seth screamed and would not come close to the spider cupcake, the table, or even the kitchen after that. Matter of fact even after we showed him that it was candy and cake, he just freaked out watching us eat it. Days later he still wouldnt touch the chocolate licorice remembering them as spider legs. Dang Cordelle ruined my Halloween mother of the year moment. It was supposed to be such cute idea too. Really it sounds like we just freaked Seth out the whole holiday, but he realy had a good time! (I think).