Halloween 2013

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Crawford got to dress up as Mickey this year. My old partner at Walmart has hung onto this Mickey costume for years now and always said I could borrow it and we were so excited that it fit. Craw watches Mickey every day so it was perfectly fitting for the stage he is in right now. We had the costume for almost a month and we would always ask Craw to try it on. He would refuse each time. But if you asked him what he was going to be he would always say "Mickey." Well fast forward to the weekend of boo at the zoo and all the fun dress-up events around town and he wouldn't budge there was no way we were getting him in costume. We tried taking him to pick out a new costume and he wasn't having any of it. He put his costume on the morning of school because they were going trick or treating but quickly pleaded that I take it off. So he went to school without a costume. Luckily the teachers said they were able to get him in it (I have no idea how). We thought Halloween was a bust. There was no way he was going to wear his costume out that night. Thanks to Hope and Carter we were able to convince him that candy and bounce houses were worth wearing you costume for. I am so glad I got a smiling picture of him in this costume.

 

 

 

The cousins together before trunk or treating at Praise church.

 

Hope is soo sweet with Crawford and always wants him by her side.

 

Standing in line to trunk or treat.

 

The kids looking at all the bounce houses they got to go in after trick or treating.

 

They walked around the parking lot collecting candy from the different cars and Crawford would say "thank you" to everyone. Then they were off for the rides and games in the field. They got to ride a train around the parking lot and of course loved it!

 

Then it was bounce houses galore.

 

 

I had to include this last picture because this is how poor Craw felt about dressing up. I hope next year he gets excited about Halloween but he straight up would say "I don't want candy if I have to wear that costume" --

I didn't know how I would feel about trunk or treating but since we don't live in a neighborhood we decided to give it whirl. It took the fun out of running to the houses and saying "trick or treat" but the excited about the bounce houses and train were enough to distract from trick or treating at people's cars.