Flashback

It's almost that time of year again when we dress our kids up silly and send them out into the night to knock on the doors of strangers and beg for candy. I'm not that into Halloween. I think it's a really bizarre holiday. Anyway, that's not the point.

I was recently reminded of a very memorable Halloween 4 years ago. We went up to Plains to visit my sister and her family and to go with them to their church Halloween party. Andrew adores these particular cousins which at the time were all girls (they've since added two boys and another girl for a total of 7)! He has been highly influenced by these girls in his life. He looooves them!

Andrew had asked to be 'Woody' from Toy Story for Halloween that year and so I spent many hours sewing a pretty dang cute costume...

...see, isn't that cute?

When we got to Plains and it was time to get dressed Andrew wanted nothing to do with his Woody costume. All of his cousins were getting dressed up as fairies. For some reason he decided it would be better for an almost-4-year old boy to dress up as a fairy than to be Woody. We tried and tried to convince him to put his Woody costume on but he wanted nothing to do with it. So, my sister - God bless her - rounded up some extra dress up clothes and outfitted him as a fairy. He was as happy as a clam. We got some pretty weird looks from people at the party but Andrew had a blast. He danced and twirled like a real pro. He did wear his Woody costume very briefly for trick or treating a few days later but that was it. His happiest moments were in that fairy costume. (sorry for the bad pics, they are scans of poor quality 35mm)

LOVE the shoes!

I've since shown him these pictures. It's not funny. At least not for him. He's almost eight now. They make him seethe. He would keel over if he knew I posted them on here. If he could only remember how happy he was! And for crying out loud, it was not my idea!