Halloween was a success, all things taken into consideration.
It was 4:30 in the afternoon and neither kid had a costume. I was crying because both kids were crying. I was BEGGING Joshua to let me try to put his "costume" on him. He was screaming and running the other way because it involved putting things over his head and drawing on his face.
I finally managed to finish sewing his pants by HAND because there is no possible way to sit at a sewing machine with a child on each leg. I took a pair of pants and made them into bell bottoms for him. He had a tee shirt that had on old 70's van on it and said "That's my van... Man." and he had a peace sign symbol necklace on. I drew a peace sign on his face (it took me 40 minutes for him to let me). He obviously, was a hippie -- which is totally sarcastic because people always comment on how I leave his hair long and what are we, hippies, or something?? ;)
I stuck Liam in his skeleton pajamas and painted his face white.
They may be lame costumes, I don't know. I'm not really into going to the store and just BUYING a pre-made costume, but I just didn't have the time/energy/money/help to really create and make a great costume this year.
Everyone decided they wanted to come out around the neighborhood with us. My mom, my sister/her boyfriend, my dad/step mom. We had a little caravan. I drove Liam in a stroller (because someone always has some sort of comment to make about my babywearing (doesn't that hurt your back? You're going to hurt yourself, put him down). He did enjoy the stroller. Josh pulled Joshua in his little wagon and stopped at each house so he could get out. He was shy but did warm up after a while. He never got the hang of saying anything remotely similar to "trick or treat," but he did say "Candy?" at each house, followed by a hard to make out "Thank you" and "bye bye!" People were sweet with him and smiled and said bye bye, which made my heart happy. I can't stand when people are like "Ok, Say trick or treat to get candy!" and I just want to strangle them and yell HE CAN'T SAY IT.
We dumped all the candy out once we got home and it was raining out, and I went through and pulled... well, almost everything. He really shouldn't have ANY of it -- the chocolate all has dairy, any of the hard candy is colored with dyes, even the pretzels are bad because of the gluten. But I let him settle with some plain chocolate. Luckily today it's hiding ;) and he hasn't asked for it, I think he most likely forgot about it already.
The kids passed out on the couch shortly after we got home. I put them in pj's, and made them their sleepy time tea, which they drank while falling asleep on the couch. Josh ordered a pizza and picked it up, by the time he got back with it the kids were long sleeping and him and I were able to enjoy our pizza, which I feel bad hiding but it's better the kids just don't have or see it at all.
Liam was up by 11:30 pm, which means I was up with him. He stayed up for a few hours, which are all a blur to me. I know we slept on and off throughout the night, and all I remember is being so tired I could barely keep my eyes open, and trying to do things like change his diaper, fill his bottle, BEG him to tell me what's wrong and why he keeps screaming.
Nighttime sucks lately. I'm super sleep deprived.
Today is Josh's birthday and... well, I have nothing for him. Not a gift, not a card, not a cake. I don't even have the ingredients to BAKE a cake from scratch. It's awful outside, raining, windy, thunderstorms. I don't have money or a vehicle to get to the store. So. That's that.
I started a fundraiser for Joshua on youcaring.com. A few people asked how they could help, and all we really need is the help and guidance in learning what route is best for us to take. My main goal is diet and vitamin/supplements, which will require a lot of extra groceries for him, and hopefully the help of a naturopath which our insurance may not cover and costs $100-$200 per visit. So, i'll post the link -- just putting it out there.
http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/a-voice-for-joshua/101666
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