B trick or treats!!

Halloween kind of lost its appeal once I stopped trick or treating. It hasn't been my thing for a long time. No costume parties for me. And then I had kids and I do love dressing up my little guys. With the exception of last year (which was right after we started therapy and Halloween was barely an afterthought), I have loved choosing costumes and dressing up my little cuties. I figured this was likely the last year where I had much influence on their costumes. Even at 5, I had to beg and plead to get my big guy to be something other than an Optimus Prime transformer!

B's history with Halloween has not been entirely favorable. At age 1 (almost), he was an adorable monkey who strolled along while big brother walked the neighborhood. At almost 2, he freaked out whenever we went up to a door and we ultimately gave him a pacifier and took him in early. Last year, at 3 (2 weeks shy), he again sat in a stroller and was perfectly content so long as he never had to get out of it. Needless to say, my expectations this year were low. I was expecting to have difficulty getting him in costume and not really counting on even part of it staying on long enough to get out of the house. And I figured we would either have to get a stroller for him or that he would be tugging and pulling on us all night to try to go home. Boy was I wrong!! He seemed to LOVE it! He actually wanted to go up to the houses and he picked out a piece of candy at each place and put it in his pumpkin. We didn't teach or practice this. He seemed to catch on that the kids were saying something as they went to houses but he is more likely to repeat the last thing he hears so we heard a lot of "you're welcome" rather than trick or treat. Kind of adorable, actually.

Big brother had a killer time too. I love how he said thank you each time and was so much bolder this year than last. And when asked who he was, he would tell everyone his real name, hesitate and say "and Woody". Super cute.

I am seriously beaming with pride. I need to stop underestimating this little dude.

Here are a few pics. Yes, I'm biased but I thought they were extremely adorable this year: