Belated Halloween Post

Here's a photo of her in her flower suit.  I had ordered a peanut costume but it never arrived since I didn't get the million emails Amazon.com sent me about the card on our account being expired since they all went to Justin's Yahoo account which gets hundreds of emails every day,  most of which are spam.  Why do people even use yahoo mail anyway? Well, this is what we got instead courtesy of Nanna B.  If it weren't for her, she would have gone as a trash bag or or a sack of rice.

You will notice I could have fit two of her heads into the hood.  I ended up using a hair tie to tie a small ponytail on the hood so we could see her face which was covered by a constant stream of drool from her sucker.  I hardly got anyone saying how cute she was with the mess on her face and front.  haha.  They were more like, "oh, and you're a flower, nice".  Last year it was all coos and giggles with her mermaid costume. 

As you can see Bea didn't have enough sucker in her mouth and tried to steal cousin Matthew's sucker as well.  This was her first sucker.  I don't know where she would have put another one seeing her mouth was barely large enough to fit one.  I know it goes against everything I believe about the evils of sugar to let my kids eat Halloween candy, but I always LOVED Halloween, even more than Christmas and I can't deprive my children of that experience, and with that comes hoards of candy.  My philosophy is that my kids can eat whatever they want a couple weeks after Halloween and then eat the treats and sweets of the Holiday season but on January 1st, it's all over.  Candy gone, hidden, trashed, whatever. So far it's worked pretty well.  When Henry knows(or thinks) there's no candy in the entire house, he doesn't even ask for it.