Everyday Halloween and its consequences

If you know me and my kids, you'll know that Halloween is an everyday thing for us.  When my kids ask me if they can wear a costume to church or the store, I always say yes.  The world will someday make them feel silly and they will stop.  It's already happened to Pearce and Cole.  But Stone and Cade still make the request and we rarely go anywhere without a full costume or mask or cape or plastic sword.  
This Halloween, an interesting thing happened.  Chad bought the younger boys' costumes about a month before Halloween and let them have them.  Cade later destroyed Stone's Optimus Prime mask in a spirited (translate: out-of-control, totally nuts) play session.  I guess you could say Bumblebee won that day because he destroyed Optimus' face.  So, Stone refused to go in a maskless costume when Halloween night rolled around.
Luckily, the pirate costume I ordered online for Cole was so small, it fit Stone.  So, we juggled costumes and everyone was pretty happy.  And when I went to get Cade ready, he didn't want to be Bumblebee, he wanted to be Optimus.  When I reminded him there was no mask, he didn't care at all.
This is the interesting consequence of wearing costumes everyday.  To Cade, Halloween wasn't anything special.  He didn't worry one time all night about his alter-ego being displayed for all the world to see.  And truthfully, what parent hasn't experienced the masked costume's short mask life span?
Not only that, but Cade dressed himself and put the Optimus costume right over his school clothes so that Optimus looked very preppy.  And below, pictures of our everyday Halloween life. 

Preppy Optimus

Superman jammies and cowboy boots.  Of course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



And because it might be my favorite video ever - and one I watch over and over with Pearce and Cole.  And because we laugh until we cry when we see it, here you go.