Cole's first Halloween was as a giant pumpkin - perhaps not his first choice, but the stores were all out of the ninja or firefighter costumes. We showed off the costume first on the Saturday before Halloween at the Hydrocelphalus party up at Primary Children's hospital. It was great to see all of the kids having a great time.
Holy cow the parents in the committee really went above and beyond. Their were games of chance and skill and then a cake walk - or in this case a pumpkin walk. There was all kinds of gross and disgusting foods (i.e., floating eyeballs, dripping blood) all the kinds of things the kids loved.
Then on Halloween, as has been our tradition for the past 10 years, we spun and gave away cotton candy to the neighbors, and their families, and their family's family, and the people they told at work - all in all we gave away over 225 bags of cotton candy. It was a nice night - not too cold. Shawn's mom came over and watched Cole while we got most of it all spun. Typically we spin all night long while the kids are coming - it's quite a sight. This year, we had it all spun by 6:00, about the time we got our first trick-or-treater.
So we were able to visit more with people and check out costumes. Typically we're so busy and covered in sugar - we hardly have time to enjoy the night. But it's great fun watching the kids faces as they approach the house and see & smell (the smell goes through the neighborhood) the cotton candy - so we can't decide what we'll do next year. But it was a tremendous help to have Jacquie help out with Cole this year for sure.
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