Happy Halloween

This was the cutest Halloween ever.

Connor wanted to be a ghost.  As in old school, sheet over the head, ghost.

It's not as easy as it looks.  For starters, I didn't have an old white sheet in the house, so I had to buy a cheap set of sheets and cut the flat sheet.  Cutting those damn darn eyes out is NOT as easy as one would think.  They looked horrible, but Connor didn't care.

I had to sew the back of the sheet together because a flat sheet has two sides much shorter than the other.  So I sewed them together.  Yes, Mom, I said I SEWED.  I didn't say it was good.  I just said I sewed.  And the sewing of said sheet may have made a very pointy top.  It was definitely NOT the look we were going for, so we were VERY sure that the pointy top was able to be tucked in and under so he looked like a ghost and not something extremely offensive.  As stated earlier, I didn't say my sewing was good.  Moving on....

After two trial runs (one at the Taunton Mall free Trick-or-Treating night, and a mini trick-or-treating at speech therapy), we realized we needed to make the eyes bigger and add arm holes so that the poor kid could hold his bag of candy.  I've never gotten so many compliments on a costume before.  I think people just haven't seen an old fashioned ghost costume in a long time, so they all thought it was pretty cool.  The costume itself wasn't great, but the kid in it was, and that made it an awesome costume.

This was the first year Connor truly "got" Halloween.  He understood it a little last year, but was shy, and when the doors would open, he'd yell "CANDY!" instead of "Trick-or-Treat!".  This year, he had it all planned, and yelled "BOO!" every time someone opened their door.  It was stinkin' adorable.  People would offer him more candy, and he would say "No, that's it", and walk away with one or two lollipops or candy bars.  Of course, this made him even more adorable - that he wasn't greedy.  He also declared he was done after only 8 houses.  Of course, Mom and Dad wanted to hit the house that gives out full candy bars, so once that was done, we went home.

Maeve, of course, went with us as a little peapod.  She was happy as a clam to be held all night and to be out with everyone.  She's my little social butterfly!

By far this was the best Halloween Connor has had so far.  I hope he can stay this adorable for a little while longer before he declares that he wants nothing to do with Mom and Dad on Halloween.  We hope everyone else had a great time, too!