Halloween: Part One of Two

This year's (post) Halloween (post) is a two-parter because Hal and my costumes... clash? with the sweetness of our children's sweet munchkin get-ups. Not that we didn't last year. Or the year before. Or the year before.

But this year Hal and I were especially disturbing.

(Our poor children.)

Speaking of:

This year Archer really wanted to be a Chess Board. He's recently taken to Chess - via Checkers and wanted to be an "entire game of chess" for Halloween which was exciting because I could totally make that. Cardboard, sharpie and voila! Unfortunately Archer switched it up on us last minute and said he'd rather be a "Chess King" which took a little more work and would have to be a bit less hand-made but was still totally doable:

My mom hand made the "chess-board" pants because she's amazing like that. The checkered-shoes I found at our go-to sneaker shop and the upper half of his costume is a simple King costume from the costume store.


He had a crown but refused to wear it which was a shame but he still looked adorable even though everyone thought he was a knight.

"I'm not a knight, I'm a Chess King! CHECK MATE!"

"Check mate" has been Archer's go to threat for the last week. It's seriously intimidating, like, wow.

Fable, being too young to pick her costume went as a "Curious Bouquet of Flowers." Her legs the stems (the same neon green babylegs she wore last year) and her dress a tutu filled with faux rose petals c/o her grandma Susan:



The flowered barrettes were handmade, purchased from a local boutique and she wore a flower on her back I found at the same store and will likely steal and wear with a party dress some crazy night.



They wore their costumes all day and only ONE person got what Archer was. "No I'm not a knight, I'M A CHESS KING! CHECK MATE!"


So many mofos got check-mated yesterday, it wasn't even funny.

Meanwhile, and very surprisingly, no one confused Fable with a little boy. Although, no one got that she was a "Bouquet" either. We went with Flower Fairy just to keep the explaining to a minimum.

Archer, of course, being Archer thought she looked more like a garden. So he called her his "baby sister garden" which was also true.

"She's a GARDEN, not a fairy. And I'm a CHESS KING, not a knight! Okay?"

My favorite stories from last night:

1. While trick-or-treating, we came across a woman dressed like Octomom, complete with horrific side-ponytail and a sling full of baby dolls when Archer stopped suddenly, gasped and screamed: "OH NO! What do we do? That woman has babies all over her!"

2. Also, whilst trick-or-treating, a little girl tripped on her princess skirt and went flying face first into someone's lawn, her pumpkin full of candy launching across the walkway, sending Snickers and DOTS all over the pavement. Archer, being the sensitive, caring boy that he is, gasped, ran toward the hysterical little girl and said, "OH NO! Are you...r candies okay?"

Womp. Womp. Wooooooomp...

Meanwhile, Fable enjoyed her first Halloween not three-weeks old and I took a record 321 photographs in a three hour period. Flower-petaled tutus will do that to a mother.

"Garden"

"Curious Bouquet"

"Flower fairy"

Okay, I'll stop now.

Shit, I love having kids.

I'm going to have, like, ten more.

And Archer will be, like, "Mommy, no! You have babies all over you!"

...And I'll be like, "your fault, dude. Your fault! You and your sister were WAY too cute when you were all dressed up on Halloween, smiling at your dad and me from the stoop of our old house."

GGC