I will conceitedly admit that I think my kid’s costumes this year are the best I have ever seen. It must have been divine intervention when the thought “they could be shadows” came into my mind, because the amount of fulfillment and happiness these three shadows brought to me this past week, is almost unparalleled to every other thing in my life.
Without further adieu:
Meet my three shadows.
(There may be a play on words here, because they really are my three shadows in real life — especially that little mini one.)
My three shadows who tell secrets and are a little rascally.
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When I first introduced the costumes to Scout and Navy, they were higher than a kite. They put them on, and I had to threaten them to get them to take them off. They are obsessed with them. Especially while they sit still for 20 minutes in the dark– just waiting for someone to come close, and then they jump out to scare them. These costumes are amazing! Talk about camouflage.
But it wasn’t until Halloween night that I tried out Dash’s costume. I figured I only had a short time with his patience. Little did I know! This little boy tried to take off his mittens and face nylon (this is makeshift since they didn’t have a legit suit his size). When I sternly told him “no no” he never tried again! He was perfect! He was my ideal shadow. I can’t wait to see what I can do with him next year.
Look at these three.
I am slightly obsessed!
Here is mini shadow, just sitting in his car seat — waiting to hit up some houses for the goods.
We always try to hit up the Perkowski’s house before we leave. Luckily Gary passed them some yummy stuff. But, better y et, all of my kids had to wait patiently to eat any of their candy, because they didn’t want to de-shadow.
We hit up Auntie Gail for some healthy treats, and then Grandmas.
She took them to neighbors to get in some trick or treating.
Look at these three.
Aren’t they awesome!
Look at the shadow crawling.
So lifelike!
You’ll be amazed to know that my three shadows still beg to be held.
And when they are told that “mommy can’t”, they can throw tantrums like the shadow on the left.
(In that shadow’s defense, she told me about 10 times that day, “Mommy, my tummy doesn’t feel very good.” I didn’t buy into it too much because I couldn’t let a bad tummy ruin the showing off of my best costumes yet!)
But becuase of her bad tummy, I grabbed and held her.
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We headed off to Scummy’s house at this point where we met up with the kids to trick or treat.
This was really the first year that my kids did the real deal.
They loved it.
And although they could see really well, as it got darker and darker, a pregnant Bella helped them get down the walkways safely.
You would die over this boy — the cutest shadow on earth.
He sat in his stroller like a champ for 45 minutes straight.
He didn’t whine or complain even one time.
Finally, out of the goodness of my heart, I took his face mask off.
And it smiles as usual for my little Dashy!
We ran into “Sushi”, so made the original “Sushi” pose with them for a picture.
Here is our annual picture.
Scummy was disgusted with us and our annual lame costume.
Well, I was disgusted with her three 80’s rock stars!
When we got back to the Tackys, we opened up our bags, and Navy dug right into the gold!
All of that little stuff is for non-shadows!
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Scout dissapeared with Vaughn for an hour while they sorted and traded their candy.
And Dash cruised around for about 2 hours. You never heard him, but every once in a while, you would feel a fat little hand creep up you leg to let him stand, and then he would crawl off to something else. Like other people’s candy, that he would unwrap himself.
He really liked the suckers.
And naturally at the end of the whole night, Marc became the deejay, and we had ourselves one amazing dance party!
It was a perfect Halloween.
And the ending to a perfect night, was having two little sleeping shadows by the time we drove out of the Tacky’s neighborhood at 10:00.
And one big shadow giving us the play by play of his best Halloween night ever!
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