Playing House on Halloween
Despite all of Khiem’s crazy costume creations, we didn’t end up dressing up last night. We’ll just have to save those awesome ideas for next year (or not). What we did instead was pose as two homeowners giving away candy at our friends’ place while eating pizza, roasting pumpkin seeds and watching what would turn out to be a great Raptors home opener game against Golden State (YAY - Raptors win in OT).
I love seeing all the little kiddie costumes and seeing them all happy because I gave them candy, and of course eating the candy myself. So it was that Khiem was high on Sour Patch Kids and I had made my tongue purple with Nerds by the time the first wave of children stopped by. Best costume goes to a little giraffe boy and best group costume goes to the three Korean princesses.
Kids also have the best comments and questions. Here are a few:
- Happy Halloween - do you have a dog?
- I like your pumpkin. Are you Korean?
- Hey, I like your glasses!
- Your pumpkin’s so cute! It’s so small! (good job, K)
And did you know kids still sing that song “Trick-or-treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat?” How OLD is that?
In all, we managed to hand out candy to approximately 50 kids who came knocking on the door, and we had a good night in. It was a nice, chill departure from the crazy (though also fun) Halloween parties of the last few years. How domestic we’ve become.
~sd
And this here is obviously Sonia’s costume. Don’t mind how the polar bear looks. That’s just what happens to polar bears when you have global warming. It’s time to seriously pay attention to the environment people! Anyhow, these costumes are so symbolic. For one, Sonia is very passionate about the environment and this here shows all the habitat the polar bears and the animals in the arctic are losing due to global warming. Secondly, Leonardo and the Titanic shows how care free it is to be single. Then when you get married, you run into this big giant unforeseen iceberg that sinks all your freedom and you’re left to freeze in some cold water while the woman gets to sit on the floating piece of wood while you’re waiting for the boat men and their flashlights to save you from freezing to death. But in the end you know you would totally give your life for this special woman you’ve decided to marry. Yeah I know, sometimes I can be a bit over the top with the romance.
So I know it’s a bit late for costumes but I thought up an idea about a couple costume for me and Sonia. Maybe we’ll try this next year. This here is my costume for Leonardo DiCaprio. If I had some time I’d definitely try and make this.
Late Night Procrastination
So I’m up late doing work and I was thinking about Halloween and weddings. I think one of the real big adjustments you make as a couple is no longer thinking in the singular. You have to start thinking as a pair. When I was single, Halloween was pretty easy. You think of a costume and you go out and buy/make one. As a couple, you need to collaborate and discuss and plan out “awesome” collaborative couple costumes. Like one year, our friends Mark and Diem went as Hagar the Horrible and his wife Helga. The girls all thought “aww, that’s so cute” and the guys all thought “wow…that’s so…um…cute!” This year I’ve decided to get into the spirit of things and when Sonia wakes up tomorrow I’m going to suggest that we give out candy to the kids on Friday dressed up. I’m thinking I can be a jailberg and Sonia can be my ball and chain! ~K
