With school days starting up again, the next big holiday to prep for is one of the favorites in our house, All Hollow’s Eve or Halloween.  Halloween is great because for one day a year, everyone can be who they want to be, instead of who they have to be.  Reality is a little thinner and costumes are the norm.

Every Halloween follows the ritual of, “What do you want to be or Halloween?” No matter what your pleasure, shopping online makes finding what you want so much easier then battling hordes at the local stores.

For many, choosing the “right” costume is dictated by a few things:

1) Scary or sweet? – If your little one a blood and gore kind of kid or a more character driven individual.  Little Man is definitely character driven and loves to dress up as his favorite characters or animals.

2) What new movies, games, TV shows are out?  The newest stuff is always the ‘coolest’.  Be it video games, movies or TV shows, try and find out what your little ones are into now.  This can be difficult to differentiate between the cool ‘right now’ stuff or the cool current stuff.  Sure Annoying Orange might be cool right now, but is it really more fun then Skylanders?  Not if you are my son, LOL.
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