J and M + j + s: Halloween!

I was excited about Halloween this year, because it is the first time Josh really understands what it is about. I was not disappointed :-). The past two years I have not gotten particularly creative with costumes, but this year I planned ahead. Josh was the Man with the Yellow hat and Sam was Curious George. I was concerned that at the last minute Josh would want to be Curious George, but he LOVED being the man with the yellow hat. Their costumes were very popular at the daycare parade.

We went trick or treating with our next door neighbors again this year which worked out great. Josh happily knocked on doors with the little girl next door (about 6 months older than him) and said "trick or treat!" And "thank you!" After getting his candy. Last year he wanted to eat each piece after every house, but his year he was happy to collect as much candy as possible. When we got home he had one piece and was very good about it.

After Josh went to bed we sorted through his candy to confiscate anything with Peanuts or that would be unsafe. It seemed like cheating that he didn't know which candy he should select, so he had a lot of peanut items. Never fear, Julian and I took on the task of keeping him safe. We added back some of the safe candy we bought so he wouldn't notice. I was very very worried about how to manage his allergy at Halloween and it turned out to be fine!

For the next month and a half Josh got to have one piece of candy after dinner. We ended up letting Josh try a few candies that were "produced in a facility with peanuts or tree nuts" but avoided anything that said, "may contain peanuts". He also did surprisingly well with skittles and whoppers, we thought they might be a chocking hazard, so watched him very carefully. He was very cute about sharing his candy with us, and would break off some chocolate to share or give us some skittles or gummies.

All in all it was a great Halloween! Sorry we were so slow to post about it :-)