Lady Bug

Here’s Rosalyn’s super fancy, extremely well crafted, and expertly sewn Halloween costume. 

While we’re still talking about Halloween I wanted to record some things to remember about the boys first Trick-or-treating experience.  Nick took them around our neighborhood while I handed out candy, so here is dictation from Nick:

Brookston didn’t initially want to go, but finally got into it despite his dislike for his bull costume.  Once he discovered folks were handing out candy he found motivation.  Everett would yell ‘trick or treat’ all the way up the drive-way.  And by the end of the night they both would say thank you without being prompted.  At some point during the evening, Everett became enthralled with a monkey and kept saying “Where the monkey go? Find the monkey.” 

The next day we took a walk as a family and Everett insisted upon bringing his pumpkin bucket, for obvious reasons.  He suspected pumpkin buckets are the path to free candy.  And lo and behold, as we passed a lady sitting on her porch she darted inside and came back out as quickly as she could with her candy bucket!  So, through empirical evidence Everett and Brookston know that the pumpkin bucket is indeed the means to your dreams. 

We have since hidden the pumpkin buckets.