Halloween- June.

Halloween isn't a huge deal in our house. Mama's too afraid of anything remotely scary and Henry hates wearing costumes. So they plan was to put him in a pair of overalls and call him a train engineer. But on Tuesday night, Henry suddenly announced that he HAD to be a T-Rex for Halloween. Because Clemson trick-or-treating is on Thursday, this gave mama only one day to come up with something. She ran to the store and picked up a t-shirt and sweatpants and went to work.

Here's the first attempt. We decided the mask was a lot creepy and sent it back to mama for another shot.

But the scales and the tail looked good.

Here's the final product. We added bottom teeth and cut the scary eyes out of the mask and added some eyes and scales up top. Mama is also very proud of the gloves with claws and shoes covers with claws.

Mama got my costume from one of Henry's former classmates from North Carolina. She made such a stink last year about how cute it was that the little girl's mama emailed her last month and asked her if she wanted it. The tights really make the outfit.

On Thursday we suited up for the Downtown Trick or Treat. It was packed, but we got a good stash of candy.

We stopped to take a break.

We let June have a sucker, which set a bad precedent for the rest of Halloween. Once she got a taste of candy, she became the candy monster. When offered candy, she grabbed handfuls from the baskets. When she saw someone sitting down, she assumed they were handing out candy and tried to get candy out of their bags. And by the end of the evening she just started taking candy that was being eaten out of kids' hands.

A church downtown opened up their parish center and served a hot dog dinner complete with chili cheese fritos (a family favorite) and sweet tea. They even played "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."

We were especially pleased to see that someone came dressed up as papa! Actually, he's supposed to be the guy from OxiClean commercials, but we think he bears an uncanny resemblance to papa with his thick Wisconsin beard.

After supper, June quickly fell into a sugar coma and refused to walk, or even sit. Look at how cute those tights are. We are not putting those away.

We stopped at the park to burn off some of the sugar high. I jumped off walls.

And June tried to jump too, but mama caught her before she had the chance.

Mama and Papa feel like they've been pretty lucky with me so far. I'm an easygoing kid and generally pretty low maintenance. But lately, I've entered what they call my "deliberately disobedient" phase. On the walk back to the car, I hit the ground again and refused to get up.

Back at home, Henry agreed to put his costume back on so you could get a better look at mama's handiwork.

And from the back. Henry was especially pleased with the tail.

On Friday, we headed to campus to watch the band practice. They open up their practice for kids to come watch. Best part of Friday's practice? Wear a costume and get candy! They had a parade around the practice field and then handed out so much candy, we had to quit stop early because each band member was literally putting two handfuls of candy in our bag.