growing up in peru, we would celebrate "costume day" on halloween, and the whole community, kids & adults alike, would have the day off of work or school, dress up, have a parade & a contest. the costumes were pretty imaginative & elaborate (almost entirely handmade) but no one could dress up like anything scary. that was key. i don't ever remember trick-or-treating, so that aspect of halloween isn't really a part of my culture.
due to shepherd's extreme fear of masks, i thought we'd forget about halloween altogether this year. but heron had other ideas! she'd heard everyone talking about it, & at the last minute she talked me into letting her go. so we pulled this little snow white dress out of her costume trunk & joined some friends on their neighborhood jaunt (pictured above are joaquin as batman & cypress as the lion). meanwhile, josh took shepherd out on a little father-son dinner date (he dressed up as a bee & buzzed all around the house later on). heron was a big fan of trick-or-treating, so i guess i'll need to be a little more prepared next year!
{bee at bedtime}
