halloween

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}