Leonardo and the sugar induced coma

I'll start with:
Best..age...ever...for...trick-or-treating!

Noah had a blast this year for Halloween. His mutant ninja costume has consumed his thoughts the past 3 weeks. He's gotten to wear it for spots here and there but on Saturday he got don it for real. When he puts it on he runs through the house and does cartwheels and comes up in his 'ninja pose.' His friends Hayden and Julia came over to go trick-or-treating with him. Jenna and Val did our street and then the Dad's took them into the neighborhood. Then the fun began.

Noah and Hayden were the oddest tagteam of superheroes ever. Leonardo and Venom made quite the team. They started out timid and shy but after awhile, Noah got into character. After 30 minutes they weren't even saying 'Trick-or-treat' anymore. Noah would run to the door, do his cartwheel, drop to his ninja pose and shout 'Mutant Ninja Tuttle!!!' followed by Hayden's jump and '...And Spida-Man!!!!' The people couldn't help but laugh at their exuberance and then the 'Awwww's when they shouted "Thank you!!!' and took off back to Ron and I. Down the homestretch Noah wasn't paying attention to the trick-or-treating anymore. He was doing spins and kicks down the street/sidewalk and I could tell he was singing the TMNT theme song. He only knows about every 5th word but he hummed it good until the word he knew.

It was pretty funny but when we got back to the house the real fun began. You would have thought they'd never seen candy before. They jumped on the bed watching ninja turtles for a couple of hours. After Hayden left, Noah finally relented in going upstairs to bed but he wanted to sleep in his costume. It took some convincing but I finally talked him into letting me take the costume off, taking his clothes underneath off, and then putting the costume back on.

After about 5 minutes in the bed he was out. When I went up to tuck him in-after the Yankees game 4 win-I could tell he hadn't moved. He was flat on his back wearing his Leonardo costume with his hands out in his ninja pose.




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