Over the weekend I attended a kid's birthday/Halloween Party. RG3 was one of the kids present.
As you may recall from earlier tales, I introduced The Boy to The Classics, including the Disney Winnie-The-Pooh (original movies from the 60's). When we get together to play he tells me he's WtP, while I take the coveted role of Tigger (sometime Grandma is Kanga, sometimes she's excluded from the 100 Acre Woods). I thought we'd make a good double costume this year. Except I couldn't find Pooh and Tigger in any of the Mega Stores, Grocery Stores or Discount/ 2nd Hand Shops. I even tried online to no real avail. I found some costumes but none with the justification for price. Most of the good ones were rentals (already rented), and the more "affordable" ones looked like crap. So, I was forced to wear my scary hooded spook get-up. Those of you with glasses know how difficult dressing for Halloween can be, you can't wear a mask or you risk virtually blindness without your lenses, and you can't wear your specs on the outside because (mostly) that just looks stupid. Who's going to fear a wolfman in bifocals? So, anyhow, a few years back I got this red hooded thing that has a black screen-like face covering. You can see out, but not so easily in (pictures included here display partial face due to the idiosyncrasies of camera shots).
The problem is that RG3 was TERRIFIED of me (even when I opened the hatch and showed him my real face) and took about an hour before he felt confident enough to get with-in arms reach. 
It's not fair. I didn't panic over HIS Elmo costume. 
Anyhow, we're all primed and ready to hit the Halloween circuit this Saturday. I don't think RG3 will let me wear the hood, though...
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