Boo!

Months ago, the One Step Ahead catalog — Halloween Edition — showed up in our mailbox. Sawyer flipped through the first few pages, pointed to a costume. And said: "I want to be [THAT]!"

Months went by. We moved. Halloween was pretty much at the bottom of my list. Until last week when I realized that if I didn't get a move on, Sawyer would not only NOT be THAT for Halloween, he would just be plain Sawyer, dressed as himself.

I started frantically looking around and discovered that THAT must be the single most popular Halloween costume for boys ages 3-5. There were none to be found online, anywhere. I tried to talk him into something else. A backup plan perhaps. He would have none of it. He looked at the picture online again and said he wanted to be THAT and only THAT.

So on his way across Kansas, Scott took the time to call all the Target stores on I-70 between the Colorado State Line and Empire. And, wouldn't you know it, he found THAT in Sawyer's size somewhere outside Denver and had the salesclerk set it aside for him.

Meanwhile, Arden could really care less what she is for Halloween, and so I instructed Scott to find something that was neither fairylike nor princess-ish, since i figure we'll get plenty of THAT in the years to come. I also ruled out ducks, pumpkins and bumblebees anything too mainstream babyish — which effectively limited him to one costume in the whole store.

When Scott arrived home with the costumes, the kids did not react quite the way he had hoped. Well, Arden could really have cared less. And, Sawyer . . . do you see where this is going . . . Sawyer leaned over to me and said, "Mommy, I don't want to wear THAT."

Typically, he was scared of his own costume.

Scott promised that he'd have Sawyer wearing THAT around the next day and, low and behold, I haven't been able to peel the costume off him since.

If you are wondering, yet, what THAT is, I guess you'll just have to wait to be surprised.

Happy Halloween . . . almost.