Halloween

This year Halloween was...well...lame.  We did the Pumpkin Patch thing, which was fun.  We skipped buying pumpkins, so we had no pumpkin carving.  Blip was a little long for his costume, but since he didn't really care....neither did I.  I mean I cared, but next year and the coming years will be a lot more fun. 

I had the idea a few months ago that I wanted Blip to be Blu from Rio.  I started looking for Blu costumes....I found one.  Some chick was custom making them and they were awesome.  Awesome and $95.  I decided that for his first Halloween...one that he didn't give a crap about...it would just be wasted.  I was initially torn, but ultimately decided I just couldn't do it.  If he was older and REALLY cared...maybe, but this year?  Not so much.

So I started looking for cute costumes in general.  I found a few that I really liked, but decided I liked the skunk and the parrot the best.  Because Blip loves Rio so much, I decided the parrot was definitely the costume for him.  And at $15...it was the costume for me too.

Mike & I tried on Blip's costume on him a few days before Halloween.  We needed to make sure it fit, and Mike had to work on the actual day.  If he wasn't so dang tall, the costume would have fir perfectly.  Unfortunately, he is tall, so his legs were too long when he sat down.  Or moved.  If he stood still (which he can't do on his own), the costume fit perfectly.  It was our comic relief.  

Poor kid.  He didn't really care most of the time, but there were a few minutes we thought he might revolt.

On the actual day, I raced home from work, grabbed him up from Lori's house, and headed home to get food for his dinner, his costume and a change of clothes for me.  We arrived at Richelle's at exactly 6pm...I hurried and changed him, took a few pictures, and we were off to trick-or-treat.  Blip LOVES his boys...and LOVES to be outside, so that was his real treat.  We didn't even bring a candy bag.  We just walked and hung out with the boys, Richelle, and Margene...it was perfect.

The boys didn't want to do an insane amount of trick-or-treating, so we finished in record time and then headed back to Richelle's house. I fed Blip, and the boys didn't even look through their candy bags before starting their (stupid) video game. 

After dinner, we played on the floor with Blip.  I wanted to show Richelle he could almost really do the army crawl.  Instead, he showed off his skills.  He went from kinda doing to the army crawl while really trying not to on Sunday...to REALLY doing to army crawl on Wednesday.  It was awesome, and I was so proud.  And it broke my heart at the same time.

I love that Blip grows each and everyday.  He learns so much and amazes me with each new thing.  Everyone told us that "it goes so fast," but there is no way to understand what that means until it is happening.  It really is going SO fast.  This has been the best (almost) nine months of my life.  EVERYTHING has changed...for the better.  Life has so much more meaning, and has SO much more meaning.  It's hard to believe how much one teensy person can change so much, but what an amazing ride.