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klynne924
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Anyone else NOT dressing LO up for Halloween?
klynne924
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I've been back and forth with DH on costumes for DS this year. Now, I think we are just going to skip dressing up all together. My reasons are: 1. I don't want him to go trick-or-treating because I don't feed him candy and I know he won't go for not eating it along the way and 2. unlike last year when he was only 4 months old, he won't just sit with me in his costume and pass out candy to the neighborhood kids. I am thinking about buying a skeleton shirt from Carter's and being done with it. I honestly have thought about skipping this for upcoming years. Somebody suggested hanging a sign around his neck that said "no candy please", but what is the point of trick-or-treating? I think that would be too weird to go up to people's houses, ring the doorbell, and turn around without getting candy, ya know? Anybody else skipping out this Halloween?
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Re: Anyone else NOT dressing LO up for Halloween?
I think you are thinking about this far to deeply. Halloween is fun. That is it. Part of the fun now is you get to pick costumes and parade around your cutie and show him off. Dude, take the candy?! Jackson is 3 1/2 he still doesn't eat the candy. He may pick one or two things and then B and I pick at what we like and the rest gets sent to his work. Those guys will eat the rest happily. Being a parent is tough, keep the candy while you can. lol
I guess to us this was never a question. It's fun not something to fret about. The sign around the neck thing is weird for sure. If you guys just aren't into Halloween than I would just leave the lights off on the porch and treat as any other night. If your not opposed to Halloween in general, dress him up. One day you will look back and be sad he has years missing out of the fun.
At his current age, I don't blame you. He won't know the difference and wouldn't get much out of it anyway. Trick or treating at 1 you can skip!
But for future years as he gets older? Let him go trick or treating - just set some rules about what he is allowed to have while out there. DD likes Dum Dum lollipops and they take her a loooong time to eat so we'll probably let her have one of those and tell her she can pick one other thing from her candy pail while we are out there,
DMoney will be a kickass big sister
I agree! Last year Bailey was 16 months old and loved walking around to the houses with his little friends. Dh went to every door with him and we ended up picking out a few pieces like smarties and lollipop he could eat. Then the bag disappeared. We only went to a handful of houses but he had so much fun even that young.
Please do not put a sign around that child's neck!
We dressed Mia up for a little bit last year. Some people tried to give her candy - we took it, but she doesn't eat candy so I ended up giving it to older kids later on. We will probably go to a few neighbors houses just to say hello and then come home and paint a pumpkin.
I don't feed my kids candy on a daily basis or anything, but for sure they get candy on Halloween! Of course, at 16 months, maybe they wouldn't have known any different, but even then if they had wanted a piece of chocolate I would totally let them have it. I'm pretty laid back about that kind of thing though. Not saying you are not, but if you put a sign that says "no candy" on his neck, then you are definitely not laid back, ha!
I will say we have gone every year since Jack was born, and he has always enjoyed it (even if he didn't sit down and devour all the candy, it was just a fun activity to go ring the bell, get something, and run away). Last year was the first year that both boys were super into it (they were 2 and 3), so before that we'd just hit a few close houses and then go home to help hand out candy. They thought it was fun to wait for people to ring the bell and then help hand out candy!