For several years now, JT has gone Halloween trick-or-treating with his friend D. The boys have been buddies since JT was just three and D was a year and a half years old. They are now eight and seven respectively and it is one of the blessings of their young lives that these boys just get one another. Blessed with a similar ability to suspend reality and live entirely in their imaginations, they can play together for hours and hours at a time, chattering and having fun.
In the last year, as JT has grown more self-aware, he's thought about his friendship with D and told me that they can always play together because of their willingness to believe in one another's make –believe games. JT recently told me, "It's okay with me if D wants to be an alien from the future because D lets me be a pirate from the past."
Well said, I think.
These boys have a happy Halloween past:
2005
2006
2007
2008
4 comments:
Is that a photocopy of D's face on his detached head? I'm stealing that costume idea for next year.
Great pics! In the first pic though, I thought the ghost was an actual kid :)
@sassafras mama Thanks for this fun "blast from the past" chronicle of our Hallowe'en fun!
@j.bro Indeed it is a photocopy of D's face, "plastered" onto a homemade "head" (pillow) w/ old sheer pantyhose...
We also used pantyhose to create "eye windows" in the body of the old shirt.
The costume was a huge hit, although like most face-covering costumes, it eventually became tiresome for the wearer (at which point he went for the "two headed kid" option).
nice work!
Cute alien with the cute headless boy!
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