The Stanford Family: halloween

This year was an awesome halloween. The twins were so aware and into this year. They learned how to say "trick or treat" and would run up to the doors with Julian to take turn ringing the doorbell. Julian was great with them, waiting for them to keep up with him and taking turns with the doorbell. Another first for us, that is for the first time in the past 9 Halloweens, we had family here to see the kids in their costumes and to walk with us door to door. Another perk for living near family.

All the kids picked their own costumes, and were very opinionated about what they wanted to be.

Lilly- was a bad witch.
Alex- was a spider (which he was last year but he wanted to be it again. ) He wanted to be a fireman, until Lilly's costume had spiders on it. And since Lilly was a bad witch, he was a bad spider.

Julian- was a skeleton. This was a little more difficult. Chris took Julian shopping for a costume after I had my gallbladder out and was resting. A simple task. They didn't have much to pick from so Julian got a spiderman costume. Well the day before Halloween, I learn that Julian doesn't like it and he is embarrased to wear it to school for the parade the next day. This is not very much notice that he doesn't like it. So, I go searching around the house for an alternative for school the next morning. We came up with a baseball player with his old uniform from baseball season last spring in PA. Then, while everyone was at school, I went to target to find a not embarrassing costume. And came up with the skeleton. What we do for our kids to be happy.