Happy Halloween 2012!

First of all, Happy Halloween to those of you who celebrate!

Here is our lineup this year: Spider-Man, Symbiote Spider-Man, elf and wizard.

This is the first year I didn’t make their costumes. (No, the desire to be the dung beetle didn’t stick, sadly.) One day we wandered into a costume shop and they picked them out. It was so easy! Why didn’t anyone tell me?

They’ve never seen the Spider-Man movies so I can’t help but think their costume choice had something to do with my fear of spiders. And that they know I’m afraid of spiders. Maybe. Who cares.

Halloween & Being Good, Protective Parents was my big Halloween post last year and I pretty much covered everything I could say about this year because again, it hasn’t happened yet. I also wrote and illustrated this Halloween Tidbit after last year.

So go read those and we’ll all just pretend I stayed up late last night writing them.

I was actually up late experimenting with candy corn which is just as important. My experiment involved seeing how many of them I could fit into my mouth at one time. I tried* but failed to beat the current record holder who can fit 70. <– that is a boring video, I’ll spoiler it for you: she puts 70 candy corns into her mouth.

 

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*I’m joking. I’m not really that motivated. I did eat some though.  

Apologies to anyone who is offended by candy corn consumption. Or licensed character Halloween costumes.  Or sarcasm.  

Also, bummed for the kids that have another cancelled Halloween. Thanks Hurricane Sandy, for depriving precious children their chance to dress in weird outfits and obtain mass quantities of sugar. (But seriously, hope everyone is safe over there.)

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90 Responses to Happy Halloween 2012!

  1. My boys were supposed to be Axl and Slash and they looked so adorable. But at the last minute, my older son decided he wanted to be Batman instead. So they were Axl and batman-in-hand-me-down-batman-jammies.

    I really like your costumes.

    • BrittVM says:

      That’s is so weird- my 10 month old is parading around in hand-me down batman pajamas right now haha

  2. Wait, also I love that crappy baby’s eyes are still huge even when he’s in costume.

    AND, I was thinking about last year’s post tonight when we were trick or treating because my older son kept trying to go into every single person’s house. He’s four, so it wasn’t the toddler thing of not getting it and thinking, “They opened the door, come on in guys”. He just kept saying, “I just want to stay here!”

  3. Gillian says:

    The red boots!

  4. deanna says:

    i was directed to your blog a few days ago. with my youngest son sick and wanting nothing more than to sit by my side and watch episodes of dora, i have had the time to read your entire blog. i don’t know if that makes me super impressive, or super creepy. either way, it had me cracking up. as the mother of two boys who are also three years apart, i was nodding at almost every single post. i was actually pretty bummed when i reached the last (the first?) blog post. thanks for being so crappy!

    • Lori says:

      I recently read all of her posts too. I have an 18-month son, and I think Crappy Mama is the funniest blog writer/cartoonist ever!

      • Claire H says:

        She is without doubt my all time favourite blogger too 🙂 . I absolutely love this picture!

        My son has also inexplicably been crazy about Spiderman since he was a toddler – it’s weird because he’s never seen the films either or even the old cartoon show. I think he just likes the suit and going “pitchoo pitchoo!” while doing spideyhands. I’m not entirely sure he even knows what he’s pitchooing about!

        • Leigh Dever says:

          My husband just took three nights and read all of her posts, too! We were on vacation in a one room hotel. So when baby went down, we just layed in bed with our ipad and iphone. I played solitare until I fell asleep. He read crappy posts for the next three nights. He LOVES them and so do I!!

          • deanna says:

            i emailed a couple of the posts to send my husband. like the one about when husbands get sick it’s the end of the world, and they think they are going to die. he needed to see that.

  5. Candy corn is good but the mellowcreme pumpkins are better. Is there a record holder for that?

    Do they actually do Trick or Treating on Halloween where you live? They do it a day or two early so we’re already done. Today is just a letdown. Instead we get to go car battery shopping, which can be sort of scary when you think about it.

    Have a Happy Halloween!

    • amber says:

      There is probably a record. I haven’t seen those around much lately. I haven’t had one in years! Good though. Nice texture.

      Yep, Trick or Treating is on actual Halloween here. At least I hope it is. Either that or I’ll have some really disappointed kids tonight.

    • Kathleen says:

      I don’t like the mellowcreme pumpkins (too thick), but my husband agrees that they’re better than candy corn. When I sent him to the store to buy milk the other day, he came home with a couple bags of them. And then complained that he’s gaining weight.

  6. Jennifer says:

    Happy Halloween! I love the picture! And the one from the last year, where Crappy Baby wanders into the stranger’s house as you guys are walking away, STILL makes me laugh out loud. Enjoy the pre-made costumes and candy corn!

  7. I’m also a make-your-own-costume devotee. I have this ridiculous sense that it’s cheaper, even though that has not borne out ever. For example, I decided this year that my 2-year-old son would go as Felix Baumgartner, the space skydiver. (The reason why, other than the fact that Felix is awesome, is long and complicated, and I talk about it here, which you really don’t have to read but if you’re curious: http://sahmnambulist.blogspot.com/2012/10/felix-baumgartner-speech-delays-and.html)

    I bought a grey sweatshirt at Good Will because no one makes white hooded sweatshirts for toddlers. $4
    Bleach for making a gray sweatshirt white (which we already owned and was completely ineffective): basically free.
    RIT Color Remover, which did not work at all, meaning our suit had to be gray and I was super surprised at the hardiness of a Goodwill sweatshirt purchase: $2.29
    Iron-on printer paper: $6.99
    White Hanky for use as a parachute: $0.99
    Fabric Stiffener to make the parachute look like it was being used: $5.99
    New ink cartridges for the printer because ours ran out: $60 (Granted, we would have had to buy these anyway, but we bought them at the office supply store for the highest possible price because we were in a hurry, rather than shop around online like we normally would.)
    Glow stick necklaces which we didn’t end up using: $3.98
    Grand total: $84.24
    All this for a costume that was completely unclear to the point where no one even asked us what he was: http://sahmnambulist.blogspot.com/2012/10/boo-at-zoo.html

    Next year, we’re going store bought.

  8. Angela says:

    I’m offended by candy corn because I’m currently pregnant and can’t eat sugar! (gestational diabetes bites) So I lol’ed at your disclaimer.

    Happy Halloween!

    • amber says:

      Oh no! I was on a zero sugar diet during my 2nd pregnancy too. I could only eat 1/2 serving of fruit once per week as a treat. That sucked. Especially when all I craved was ice cream and cookies. Fortunately, mine didn’t fall over any sugar inspired holidays. I feel you.

      • Lindsy says:

        I also feel your pain (prego with GD). I have found, however, that if I exercise and eat a lot of protein (specifically eggs), I can enjoy a few pieces of candy. I’ll eat eggs for dinner and maybe walk around the block. I’m entering the 9th month so walking anywhere is kind of a pain. Good luck!

        • Nicole says:

          I feel your pain, as well. Even though I had my baby five weeks ago, I have to wait until my check up next week to find out for sure if the diabetes has gone away. And I’m pretty sure my husband will eat all of the leftover candy by then.

  9. BeckyKay says:

    I bought an expensive cheaply constructed Cinderella costume for my daughter this year. It cost $20 and she’s already gotten at least $50 worth of wear out of it, and I suspect she will continue to wear it until it’s too small. Worth every penny.

  10. 70? That’s all? I’ve been looking for a goal in life for forty years, and I think I’ve just found it. Happy Halloween (and call the Guinness Book people for me).

    • amber says:

      Glad to hear someone is up for the challenge.

    • Kathleen says:

      Do they have to be whole? It seems like half the bag is chopped into barely recognizable candy corns.

      • Gwen Wark says:

        I’m a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE fan of this blog, so seeing one of our records mentioned here was really a nice treat today. 🙂

        For the record, the pieces do need to be whole, you cannot chew or crush the candy, and your mouth needs to close around them.

        I would LOVE to see what records this community could come up with. We had one for stacking nappies but there are really some underexplored possibilities here!

  11. Salt says:

    Woah 70 candy corns? That sounds like a serious choking hazard.

    Happy Halloween to you guys! I hope it’s a fun one!

  12. Liz says:

    I love that you apologize to the trolls LOL Keep the funny sarcasm coming

  13. Darcy says:

    I love that you are rocking the red boots. 🙂 and those kids who aren’t able to play tonight will have another chance when conditions are safe. It’s just being bumped back a few days.

    • amber says:

      I hope so. Either that or we owe them EXTRA candy this year.

      • Jenny says:

        We have indeed had Halloween “cancelled” here, but it’s being rescheduled as soon as the power is back. The “people” that control these things have made it all very broadly known so I have faith enough people will know about the new Halloween for it to be fun 🙂 I hope so anyway!

  14. Meridith says:

    I love your entire blog, but your disclaimer today took it to a whole new level. Thanks for all the laughs and tears. 🙂 Hope you guys have a great Halloween (I can’t wait to hear all about it)!

  15. Lexie says:

    Last year my son (6) got the reversible spiderman costume. He was excited because he had apparently hatched up a little plan. He wanted to go as the red spiderman the cone home, do a candy dump, reverse his costume to the black one and hit the neighborhood again.

    I was impressed!

  16. Ginger Kay says:

    Candy corn is one of the two most polarizing candies, isn’t it? Peeps are the other. I love one of those and hate the other.

  17. Heather says:

    Our Halloween has been postponed to Sunday due to Sandy (even though it was apparently safe enough to have school today, with only a few downed power lines…) only we may not be able to do it that day due to previous plans. I’m dreading telling the kids. Would I be a bad mom if I just had them dress up and give them a bag of kit kats each? Kit kats because they are my favorites and then I can steal some. I feel like otherwise we are all missing out…

  18. Michele Hays says:

    Have you seen this Vi Hart video about candy corn? I love her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ZWlUamNPI&feature=plcp

  19. Sonia says:

    Yay Red Boots!! Happy Halloween!! Gonna try and figure out how to fit a snowsuit under a Rapunzel costume.

  20. Susan says:

    We got hit bad last year w the winter storm last year, here in ct and Halloween was cancelled completely and kids were devastated (trees and live wires blocked our road for a week). This year we went to every possible dress up trick or treat event we could find this week (whole foods, you rock!). Trick or treating has been cancelled, again w no reschedule, but this year we can get out and have a street in another town that has invited us. Safe communities and neighborhoods are inviting people and towns without power to their homes to trick or treat. There may be devastation all around us but the people here are strong, loving, committed to each other to make the best of it. We will recover.

  21. Susan says:

    (And trick or treat)

  22. Bex says:

    Be safe east coasters.

    Halloween I. Full swing over here. We’ve had 2 fairies and a ghoul so far… My babber laughed at the fairies then proceeded to scream the house down at the ghoul…

    It seems they all gone home for tea… So I’m polishing off the candy in the dark……

  23. It does really seem like the least you could do would be to eat some damn candy corn. Do it for the Hurricane Sandy kids. 😉

  24. Chrissy says:

    OMG my boys have the same costumes! LOL they aren’t wearing them this year, they are going to be a race car driver, and a ninja (we’ll see, they may change their minds yet). We have a plethora of costumes to pick from because we’ve had cousins hand a ton down. So I like never buy costumes, ever, we just go digging in our costume bin. Have fun!

  25. Erin says:

    I kind of think that instead of sending my kids out trick-or-treating, we’re all going to sit in the house and see how many candy corns we can stuff in our mouths. New world record! Woot woot!

    Except I don’t have candy corn. I do, however, have a very large bag of frozen corn. Do you think that would work?

  26. Amanda says:

    You have no idea how happy I was to see your kids choices in costumes this year! My son who also has not seen any spider man movies or cartoons or comics or commercials (we don’t have cable because we can’t afford it, just netflix) decided to be the black spider man this year. he said it’s because he wants to be mean and angry and jump on everyone’s backs 0_0 whatever that means. So despite my disappointment in not being able to come up with some incredibly creative costume this year, I’m happy my son picked something out that he is so excited about. To him all he knows is he likes it and that it gives him muscles and strength to be mean and jump on peoples backs lol! Too bad I don’t know if we are going to get to go out tonight or not, I’ve had a bad cold for 10 days now, ear infections and all, and on Saturday he drank out of my cup, something he never ever does and declared with such pride “look mama! i drank water out of your cup because i was thristy!” yup 4 days later he is sneezing up a storm and spilling boogs out of his nose like nobody’s business. ::sigh:: maybe we will just go out for i little bit. so he can run around in his costume and jump on peoples backs.

  27. Amanda says:

    Oh! Oh! by the way I cracked up when i saw the way you drew the spider man costumes because that is exactly what they look like 🙂

  28. Colleen says:

    I used to mow through a bag of candy corn in one sitting, until I discovered that if you microwave it with peanut butter and dip it in chocolate you can make butterfingers in an 8×8 block! Thanks Pinterest for that nugget of dangerous knowledge…

  29. Yvonne says:

    I’ve never quite been able to figure out the little boy/spiderman thing. They all seem to go through a spiderman phase despite never seeing him on TV or in cartoons. When my daughter was 3 she was in a tots soccer class that had a session on Halloween. All the kids came in costumes. There were so many spidermen that we were able to play the spidermen team versus the rest of the costumes. Very cute…

  30. I’m all for taking short cuts in holiday preparations… buying costumes is all good!

  31. boldreporter says:

    Whew, Halloween here in NYC is pretty much done for this year, but at least we can see Crappy kids celebrating it out west lol

  32. KC says:

    I made our costumes this year, but doing so gave me more respect for people who don’t have the time or skills. It was a lot of work! But it was fun! You can see the dragon costume I made on my blog.

  33. meg says:

    lovin’ those red birthday boots!

  34. Kristan says:

    Yay for the new red boots! I just noticed from last year’s posts that Crappy Boy was a leaf elf in one, and a pirate in the other. Did I miss something?

  35. I can stomach candy corns. Is there a record that involves peanut butter cups? If so, I need to make a go of it.

    I have a little lalaloopsy & garden gnome at school/daycare. Tonight they will transform into a cupcake & a firewoman (also known as appropriate costumes for late-fall Montana nights).

    Happy Boo Day!

  36. Katia says:

    I don’t know what it is about boys and spiders but my son shares the same ambivalent ‘come hither but don’t go anywhere near me’ fascination with spiders. If you offered me a million bucks I would still never have guessed that the sentence ‘mommy, could you chuck that web?’ and whatever it means, would be a daily part of my life. 🙂

    I love your blog.

  37. Shaun says:

    I remember Last year’s “one kid in the house – the other one 2 doors down already” post – that was the post that got me hooked. Its been a great year – hope you have a great time with your spiders! 🙂

  38. Ariane says:

    This is the first year I didn’t make my kids’ costumes! Part of me is sad, but the other part is relieved. We’re doing Star Wars: Luke, Leia and baby Yoda.

  39. Leah Cusick says:

    Bahaha, your apologies literally made me lol…I’m constantly sorry that sarcasm offends people (mostly my in-laws, lmao)!

  40. Chris Carter says:

    Candy corn is my absolute favorite!!! I eat it regularly…like all year….and yes, I am a sugar addict and proud of that! By mid forties, you begin the acceptance phase…and stop fighting the good fight. It’s a really beautiful thing. I actually can’t wait for the 50’s stage, cause I bet it gets even better!!! WOOT. 😉 (eating candy corn this very minute…mmmm…)

  41. Kate says:

    Hey! I’m an elf this year, too! Happy Halloween, Crappy Family!

  42. Candace says:

    We are rocking one homemade costume and one off the rack one. The homemade one is for the littlest child that doesn’t have an opinion of what I do to her yet. Her name is Lily, so I’m putting her in a giant green tulle dress with a giant ass pink flower on it and she’s a Lilypad! Cute right? Until I realized about an hour ago that I’ll have to explain to everyone that her name is Lily and that’s why it’s very cute and relevant that she’s a lilypad. Maybe we’ll just say she’s a green ballerina to save some time.

  43. Cassi says:

    Why is crappy boy wearing a different costume in each of your Halloween posts last year? In one he’s a leaf elf and in the other a pirate…just wondering! 🙂

  44. Nicole says:

    My little guy is Spider-Man as well. He hasn’t seen the movies, either- but he has seen pretty much every single series- thank you, Netflix and husband!

  45. Lauren says:

    Thank you for the empathy. I love Halloween and viewed having a child as an excellent opportunity to partake in trick-or-treating activities usually frowned upon for 30-somethings, and for the second year in a row here in CT, the weather has severely curtailed our plans! I know, I know, God-willing we are looking forward to many more, but going out and buying my own little Butterfingers just isn’t the same.

  46. Sarah Boote says:

    I just got a post from a friend enjoying candy corn infused vodka – sounds rather tasty!

  47. Marleah says:

    Thanks for thinking of us East Coasters. Our town had trick-or-treat last Friday – imagine 4 days off of school, no power, full candy buckets – I’m going crazy!

  48. Christiana says:

    So which elf were you Galadriel ? Arwen ? Keebler ?

  49. While you guys were being an elf and a wizard, in W. Asheville there was a huge trick-or-treating fest on Vermont Ave. and all of a sudden a man in a homemade “ultimate bad guy from Lord of the Rings” costume came walking down the street, alone, on drywall stilts, complete with the face mask/crown and a long spikey ball-and-chain. It was so eery.

    My 2 yr old had no clue what was going on other than that he was hating wearing a mustache (only when looking in the mirror), was refusing to say “argh matie” like the pirate he was supposed to be, and that he had to run from door to door yelling trick-or-treat. He got good at it, fast.

    When he finally realized he could grab TWO treats from folks, and that he could EAT what was in his bucket, we felt it was time to go home.

  50. groovyfirechick says:

    I live in an area that was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. There were plenty of kids in my town trick or treating with flashlights. Making the best of a bad situation!

  51. Darcie says:

    I thought I scored this year with the purchased costume-in-a-bag trick. Then three days before Halloween I pull the pieces out of the bag and realize pretty much everything needed to be altered to fit him, and worst of all, that one piece jumpsuit thingy was *not* going to fly for a full day at school and no bathroom breaks! So $40 and a few late nights later, I think I’ll just stick to sewing my own :-p

  52. Madeleine says:

    This is my second North American Hallowe’en (we’re in Canada) and I was really hoping my kids would get some candy corn in their trick or treating haul so I could try it. Alas, it was not to be. I was delighted to get to try Tootsie Rolls though! (they are like Carambars in France, if you are interested in a European comparison). We went out in the soggy wet night as a very confused giraffe (my 2 year old – couldn’t fathom why the hell we had supper and then went out into the rain rather than to bed and then got candy and scared by people in masks) and a witch/vampire girl. Great fun but no candy corn!

  53. I found a costume for my son at a swap. I got to feel all the hippie mama smugness, with none of the sewing. It was too perfect, really.

  54. Christina says:

    Last year I went all out and made costumes for hubby, boy, and myself. Hubby and I dressed up, boy refused. We bought a costume this year, but just for the kid, not us. For two weeks he asked for a Spiderman costume (which he has never seen). We end up at the Halloween store and buy the costume. He had three Halloween events, and refused to wear the costume at any of them. To anyone who asked what he was, my response was “A stubborn three year old”. Today he told me he wanted a SuperWhy costume, arrgggg.

    So next year his choices are: the Spiderman costume we bought this year (it will probably still fit, on the big side this year) or something he can make.

  55. Sue Harris says:

    After 240 hours of candles, flashlights, and a chilly house, our street in Morristown, NJ just got our lights back last night. The governor postponed Halloween from Wednesday to the following Monday (instead of it being cancelled like last year), but some streets were still too dangerous to trick or treat on. The kids will probably be too old next year.

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