Halloween is my favorite holiday! Well, right behind Christmas. I love the kids dressing up, the decorations, the camaraderie in the neighborhood, and the fact that it is smack dab in the middle of fall. Seriously, walking through Hobby Lobby, the Halloween decorations get me more excited than the Christmas stuff.
Anyway... enough about my love for Halloween.
This year, we started looking at Halloween costumes on Google Images back in September. Kate saw a zookeeper costume that she liked and was set on it. I thought it would be easy to find her a khaki dress or skirt and shirt to wear, but no dice. The costume was $30, which is way more than I want to pay for a costume for one night. So, I found it used on ebay for $5! Trouble was , the previous family had written the kid's name on one pocket and "zookeeper" on the other pocket in permanent marker. Not appealing. So, I used some khaki fabric, a lion patch, and a leopard print handkerchief to get it up to par. ha!
We found the hat at a resale shop for like a buck awhile back, knowing Kate was going to need it for Halloween.
So, the obvious choice for Jack was a monkey. Very fitting. Kate took that as her opportunity to boss him around.
I love Halloween night... all the preparations and getting the kids ready. We trick or treated in our neighborhood, but then Kate wanted to go back and hand out candy. She liked that the best. People would come up and she would say, "What would you like?" before they even knew what we had. ha!
We had a little fire in the fire pit out front and ate chili, and ended the night with s'mores. It was a lot of fun.
Both kids crashed big time that night!!! That's the sign of a good time had by all.
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