Are you kidding me?

"Are you kidding me?" is Aaron's new catchphrase, as in: Time to go to bed. Are you kidding me? Usually, I am not kidding him. On Friday, all the kids went to the babysitter with their halloween costumes on. Aaron doesn't seem to have an absolute favorite character these days, and I figured he won't remember this year's halloween, so I put him in the same costume that he wore last year- Mr. Spock from Star Trek. I told him he was dressing up like a spaceman. He was fine with it, although he didn't want to wear the hat with the black hair and the Spock ears. When we got to "school", the other kids all had on little kid costumes- princesses, ballerinas, Buzz Lightyear, a cow. And I started to feel really freaking guilty about not letting the boy pick out his own costume that he could relate to.

Anyway, Saturday I was out doing errands and found a dog costume in Old Navy. Aaron loves to pretend he's a dog these days. He crawls around on his hand and knees and barks. Ask him about dinner and he'll answer, "Yes, ruff-ruff. I want noodle soup, ruff-ruff." So I thought, perfect! He'll be a dog instead. I brought home the costume, his eyes lit up and he put it on. He actually wore the bottom half of the costume for a few hours. Guilt assuaged!! I could count myself as a good mom again!! Sunday came and he couldn't wait to go trick-or-treating. Time to put on the dog costume!! "NO! Not the doggy. I don't like the doggy. I want the pirate costume!" By which he meant the space man costume. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

Saturday night, Mike and I went to a grown-ups only Halloween birthday party. We were in homemade costumes. Our host and hostess were in super fancy brocade Marie Antoinette and Louis XI costumes, and most of their guests followed suit. The best costume of all was the guy who wrapped himself in bubble wrap, put mailing stickers all over himself and a big label that said "to USA from Yemen". He was a suspicious package.

Mike was Jimmy McMillan from the New York State Governor's race. If you don't know who that is, just click here. I was a cheerleader.