John Williams is the Man

So, we let Will watch Star Wars (the 1977 one) when he turned 4. Empire and Return of the Jedi followed soon after and now we have a full blown obsession in our house. I was telling a friend about it and she sent me this:




I especially like the "Luke whiny voice" at about the 3:02 mark. Ah how I wish 4-year-olds understood things like this, cause I was laughing so hard I was almost in tears.

Costumes

Halloween this year was quite the success. In past years Will has flat out refused to get involved with dressing up, so when he took an interest in his costume this year we were pretty excited for him. He was a Dragon and Henry was...well, in some Halloween pajamas with a weird pumpkin beret my mother put on him. Will went Trick-or-treating at exactly 3 houses...and frankly he was done at 2. I made a tactical error in picking our first house. I thought, ooh cool, decorations. We did decorating, he will like that. However, the decorations were a little more PG/PG-13 then a four-year-old can really handle. Lots of screaming sounds and chainsaw sounds and fake blood...yeah, that didn't go over really well for my shy dragon. But he loved giving out the candy, so ended up having a good night after all.

My mom also brought a NASA jumpsuit costume for Will that she brought out the day after Halloween with a bunch of other dress up clothes. While he did really, really like the Dragon...the orange jumpsuit has barely come off for two days. He thinks it looks like Luke Skywalker's fighter suit from Empire strikes back and refuses to let us call it a costume.

Here are the boys prior to Trick-or treating:


Henry, getting his first taste of sugar (I was in the other room):


And Will (at the carousel) as Jedi fighter pilot extraordinaire: