We keep some of our old costumes in our bin of Halloween decorations. Others stay out and are used throughout the year (every time a gaggle of boys gets together at our house, at some point they appear in various ninja/batman costumes). Peri found the old chicken costume that she and Nick both wore for their first Halloween (see Peri below from two years ago) and proceeded to wear it each week leading up to Halloween. Never mind that the crotch of the thing was riding higher than should be comfortable. She was happy in it. And would even give little chicken squawks if you said “hi” to her.
We were having some work done on our sewer and had a stinky smell in the house one day, so we lit candles all around. The kids are really good about not playing with fire, but we reminded them anyway. Guess we forgot to say – "don’t reach over the candle with a chicken outfit on". You know how costumes and PJs come with huge warnings about “DON’T GET NEAR FLAME!!!” Well, Chris and Peri were home watching TV one Sunday afternoon (that’s right, not on my watch) and Chris looked up to see our chicken reaching over the candle and “sizzling” a little. Everyone is fine (Chris, Peri and the chicken costume). We can laugh because no one got hurt.
Parent of the year.
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