Halloween

This Halloween was Simeon’s first one being aware of what was going on…and he loved it!  Grandma Ellie made everyone’s costumes, as usual, and outdid herself – everyone has been raving about them.  They’re really cute.

Of course, Naomi, who wanted to be a horse, decided that she didn’t want to wear the horse head.  She wasn’t quite as convincing a horse without the head, although the tail did still suggest she was something other than a girl dressed in a brown fuzzy suit. 

Hannah was an Indian, and she not only wore everything Grandma Ellie made for her, she added some elements to hers.  It was really cute.

Sim was a dog, and his costume consisted mainly of the hat with ears, which was really, really cute, and which he consented to wear.  He also had an outfit with brown pants, but the hat was the best!

Our card reader isn’t functioning, so I won’t show pictures until either it’s fixed or Michael uploads photos some other way.

But Simeon was perhaps the most funny part of Halloween, and not in a way that can be captured on a camera.  We went trick-or-treating at Michael’s work on Friday, and Simeon quickly figured out what was going on, running from office to office, saying, “Trick or treat!”, showing his bag and yelling, “My bag has CANDY in it!”, calling, “Thank you!”, waving goodbye to everyone we spoke to (and it’s hilarious to see computer programmers waving to a toddler!), repeating as necessary. 

When we were trick-or-treating around our neighborhood, after every single house, he said, “Let’s go in another house!”  He also dragged his candy bag as it got heavier and heavier, and refused to let anyone help him carry it, or even carry him, except for very short stretches and up and down stairs.