We love Halloween around here. Gio loves to dress up everyday, but only on Halloween does he get to be in a parade and get buckets full of candy. The question "What were you for Halloween?" doesn't have a simple answer. Gio started off the week as a firefighter. We bought the entire costume and made him oxygen tanks with 2 liter soda bottles and black duct tape. But, when I poured out the bag of costumes and Zeke put on his Peter Pan from last year, which had magically become Robin Hood, Gio had to have one too. So, we went over to the swap shop and found a green pillow case and transformed it into Robin Hood's tunic. He completed the rest of the ensemble and ran around for the rest of the afternoon as Robin Hood. When Nana and Grandad showed up minutes before trick-or-treating with an Astronaut costume he was giddy with excitement. Lilikoi also wore three costumes: a fairy, a pea pod, and a lady bug. Zeke on the other hand is a boy who doesn't even like to wear normal clothes. So, he wore his Robin Hood shirt, but hated the belt so he took it off. He didn't mind that Gio stole his hat and shoes because he didn't like them anyway. He opted out of the parade. He hit one row of apartments trick or treating before he agreed to change his costume and became a medieval knight. We really wanted him to be a pirate with Danny but he refused. They trick or treated the whole night without shoes. Zeke's costume was basically like wearing nothing and so he got a little cold. One of the highlights was a box maze made by our BFF's Arnold and Abril. The kids played in it for hours.
The parade was pretty cute. Gio really wanted to walk with Stuti and hold her hand, but she held hands with a row of 5 princesses instead. Poor Gio. Gio won the costume contest last year for scariest costume as a pirate and went up this year in the cutest costume division, but Stuti won. He was pretty sad and told me, "I really wanted to win."
