Halloween 2008

This year, my kids are old enough to understand that Halloween is a holiday of sorts. ODS (oldest dear son) has had a firefighter uniform for a couple of months now. He wore it to school for a field trip to a fire station, he wears it all the time at home (sometimes just the helmet, sometimes the whole thing) and he wore it to school again on Friday for Halloween.

















But the best part of Halloween, for him, was comparing helmets with a real Chicago fire captain (a friend of Patrick's) after school. What a kick!

YDS liked his Elmo costume, but it's too woolly to wear when it's 70 degrees outside. He wore the headpiece for a while, but abandoned the whole idea after a couple hours at school. He's not the clothes-horse his brother is anyway.

















Outside of the outfits, they got VERY possessive about their own candy housed in brown paper sacks they got at school. Enough to make YDS completely break down in a fit of anger and frustration when Grampa tried to look in the sack.