Halloween 07

So I'm pretty late in posting Halloween pictures of my kids and I know it's kind of anti-climatic but since this blog is also the closest thing I'll ever get to scrapbooking I had to put them in here. Fortunately for me my talented, artistic sister is relentless in capturing photos of my kids or else I would have almost missed this furry, fuzzy memory.

As you may be able to tell from the photos Rhett was a lion and Emmie a ladybug. Of coarse no dress up evening would be complete without a few obstacles. For Emmie that would be one word....SHOES. A month ago I bought her a pair of black patent leather shoes because I figured she would wear them for the holidays but mainly she needed a pair of black shoes for her Halloween costume. She has worn them a few times prior but when I put them on after putting on her costume and she belt out a blood-curdling scream I thought something might be wrong. She seemed to be fine as long as she didn't have to put any pressure on her feet but my daughter is not one to be confined to a wagon all night when she sees an opportunity to run up to strangers and ask grab for candy. Again my saint sister came to the rescue and just happened to have a new pair of shoes for Emmie in her car. I swallowed my self-esteem wrapped up in my daughter having a complete matching Halloween costume pride and put brown shoes on her and she could not have been happier.

Rhett had some minor issues here and there but the main one was the drawing on of his lion nose and whiskers. When I presented the idea to him he couldn't be more happy about it but right when I was about to put the black eyeshadow on his nose he decided against it. At this point I was kind of hyped on the idea and was not going to take no for an answer. Although he felt the color choice was poor he finally relented after I agreed to have a black nose and whiskers and rabbit ears myself. Looking back now I realize it was not worth the effort of walking around all night feeling foolish much less having to scrub my face later before bed for 30 minutes straight to get the stuff off. Next year I will listen to the voice that tells me to stop while I'm ahead and remember I'm not the dressing up type.

At one point in the evening Rod was video recording Rhett and asked him what he was doing. He replied, "EATING CANDY." After that Rod asked him what night it was and he said, "CANDY." And then knowing Rhett would get this answer correct he asked him where we were at and he said, "CANDY.....church." Clearly looking at the chocolate faces of my lion and ladybug the evening was a grand success by their standard.