TNMC

It's been years since I've dressed up for Halloween.  Not that I have anything against doing so.  It's more that I'm a perfectionist, so if I decide to make a costume, I'm compelled to take it to ridiculous levels of detail.  And not having a ton of spare time these days, it's been easier to not make a costume.  This year I was going to go for it again.  I had collected all the stuff to make a good Shaun of the Dead.  But that's a costume with short sleeves and it was fingertip numbing cold out today.  Yup, I wussed out.  Maybe next year.

My kids were much braver.  You can tell that they get their influences from the movies I take them to.  Aiden is a Viking, which is something he had likely never heard of prior to our trip to see How to Train Your Dragon.  And I never once mentioned that the only thing that really says Viking about that costume is the helmet.  The history junkie in me is wigging out over the details but I have the sense to not torture him with them.

His older brother gets to go to a few more movies because he isn't as easily scared, so he's watched and loved Iron Man and Iron Man 2.  So naturally, he dressed up as ol' shell head for Halloween.