I love Halloween. I love the idea of dressing up in costumes. I love all of the candy! I love creative jack-o-lanterns. I love all of the cutesy, pinterest-y ideas for kids. I'm not into horror or slasher films or the dark, evil things, but I love the kid-friendly version of Halloween. I like trick-or-treating and seeing who lives behind all of those closed doors down our street.
Every year, I have enjoyed doing some sort of theme. One year, Ryuta and I did a 20s theme.
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| 2005 (?): Chicago gangster & a flapper girl |
Another year,we planned on being a doctor and a patient, but ironically, we both got SICK!
A really fun one was KISS! I will never forget the look on that sweet little trick-or-treater's face as we ran out the door...
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| 2007 (?): party @ the Lopezs |
As 2 became 3, we did a family theme. Kai was a tennis ball at his first Halloween (we were very, very tired tennis players! haha)
The next year, we did a family Halloween party at our house. Kai was Spock and we were his vulcan parents. We even did a Spock pumpkin! Kai went trick-or-treating for the first time with his pals, Keila, Jacob, Avery, & Berkley.
Last year, Kai borrowed Andrew's costume from the year before and was Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse was Kai's favorite TV show, so I thought he would be excited. We were a Mickey Mouse family and I did a Winnie-the-Pooh pumpkin. Kai did NOT want to wear the costume (especially the ears.) He dressed as Clark Kent at school. We went trick-or-treating in our neighborhood with Jacob and Kai was a fireman. It was funny seeing Jacob try to run into people's homes. :)
This year, I wanted to do a theme again. At first, I was excited thinking about doing an UP theme since people used to say that Kai looked like Russell. For some reason, we had bought a vampire costume for Kai on clearance last year the day after Halloween. I wasn't too excited by the idea of a vampire, but didn't want to waste our purchase. Too boring. And then I remembered that we had a little monster outfit for the baby. Twilight! A vampire and a werewolf!
Kai would have NOTHING to do with the cape or a costume. We had gone to a birthday pumpkin party and when I asked Kai about wearing a costume to that or even to his class Halloween party, he said he wanted to wear a t-shirt. I ended up buying him a Superman "shirt" from Target that had a cape attached.
I was "Fear the Beard" Wilson in honor of our Giants World Series champions. We went trick-or-treating around the neighborhood with the Pons family. Kai was pretty excited to get candy!
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| Our happy monster's first halloween |
Next year, I will ask Kai what HE wants to be. Hopefully, he will be willing to wear SOMETHING. Happy Halloween!
Here are some theme ideas I like--
Village people, sushi, anpanman, star wars, wizard of oz, mary poppins, willy wonka, circus, zoo, the grinch, guns n roses, famous artists, toy story, ninja turtles, alice in wondrland, the incredibles, bums..
