A Slender Halloween

Ledger's favorite holiday has always been Halloween. He loves to go out trick-r-treating, but has been a bit annoyed with some of his costumes in the past. He loves the costumes that are blow-up suits, but the last couple have either had too short of legs, which means he has to shuffle and take baby steps all night, or the fan stops working and the whole thing just flops over and looks sad. This year he picked the character he wanted to be nice and early so we could find just the right costume. He wanted to dress up as Slender Man. We looked around for a while to find a good one, and eventually we settled on one that was actually pretty creepy! When we first got it and he tried it on, Diana was not ok with it! She was supper freaked out by how tall it was! Ledger, of course, used this to his advantage and would try to creep his mother out all night while wearing it!

On Halloween evening we got him dressed up in the really unsettling costume and started our quest for free candy! Diana stayed back at the house passing out candy and fawning over the cute costumes that the little ones wore. Granted, she knows almost all the kids who stopped by thanks to her teaching job! All the kids would yell 'Miss Diana!' and run over to see her and get some candy. 

Ledger and I? We had plans to get some candy and creep out some kids! What makes the costume so strange is that there is a fake head that Ledger strapped to the top of his head, and then these shoulder pads that ride up to the top of his head. The shirt and tie that fall down over Ledger's face is see through from the inside, so all together it looks perfect- you can't see Ledge at all! With Ledge being five foot ten inches tall, and then another 8 inches above that with the fake head, this Slender Man costume was a towering six and a half feet tall!

As we walked down the sidewalk he would get a lot of strange looks, partly because of just how odd and tall he looked, but also because he was totally playing the part- he didn't talk and would intentionally walk too close to other people around. He would stop in the middle of the sidewalk and point at kids across the street until they noticed him. Usually they would get a little chill, give a spooked out face, and keep walking away faster. Ledge was absolutely loving it! It through off a bunch of kids, and because he was so tall in it, a bunch of the parents would cringe as well! All of this was delighting Ledger to no end!

Finally it was getting dark and the chinstrap and shoulder pads were getting rather uncomfortable, so we made our way back home. It looked like Diana's candy supply didn't last too long- she was snuggled up inside by the time we got back. All in all, another successful Halloween celebrated!

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