I look forward to Halloween for so many different reasons. Cooler weather, open windows, non-manufactured air running through my home, baked goodies ( I need to make less ), homemade soups, letting my kids play outside before 5:00....because the weather is actually cooler HORRAY! We get to decorate the home with fun spooky spider webs, and lights, and jack 'o lanterns. I have lived in non-seasonal changing places pretty much all my life. But these are the things that make me feel like fall has arrived. I love how my home feels around this time of year. The kids are just so excited for everything. Watching their excitement is contagious. But this Halloween I am extremely grateful for this particular costume.
One of my awesome neighbors, Lisa let me borrow it which means I get to save on spending on a costume. But besides that I feel like I learned something new about Viggo, through this costume. Which has totally blown my mind away. I mean I guess I always knew it....but just didn't recognize it. Okay, so here goes. Here is my mind blowing revelation that I learned about my sweet Viggo. And I am writing this down so I do not forget this about him. So my Viggo is like "all boy" for lack of a better term. He loves to talk about poop, loves farting noises, he loves to wrestle, and he is highly athletically inclined, and he is stubborn and if I do not intervene on time and help him to understand what he is feeling, well we got an angered raged tantrum. So with all these things when we would go shopping for Halloween costumes for Viggo we would look at the tuff looking stuff. We would look at Captain America, Spiderman, Thor, Pirates, Hulk. I mean with his kind of tantrums we thought he would love to be the Hulk. Not to mention that he thinks the Hulk is awesome. Yet, with all these things, these where not things HE WANTED TO BE.
This should have been my "duh" moment. How many times do we find something cool, but it's not something we necessarily would like to do, or be? So, my neighbor Lisa comes out with this costume, and says "Do you think Viggo would like to wear this?" I was already convinced that he just did not want to wear a costume, and I was like " I can ask him." So I showed Viggo the costume, and asked him. (Thinking there is no way he is going to want to be a chicken.) He takes one look and starts jumping up and down, and saying "Yes, yes that's what I want to be. I want to be a chicken!" And, then he wanted to put it on right away. So I put it on. As as he is putting it on he has a huge grin on his face. All the neighborhood kids are around, and he looks like the happiest kid on the block. He takes off running after all the kids, and when he would get to them he would give them a big squeeze. All the kids were laughing and screaming his name. There I was thinking who would have thought my Viggo would have wanted a "sweet" chicken costume. And then my neighbor Holly says "look at him he such a ham." A literal light bulb clicked on above my head in that moment. Viggo is a ham!
He does the shake the booty dance for anyone who asks him too. Why, because it makes them laugh. He tries to make us laugh at dinner all the time. Those weird annoying noises that I thought he did for people, because I thought he was acting shy, was not out of shyness at all. He was just trying to be funny. The reason why he tugs on his eyes for a picture is not because he is trying to be difficult, or because he does not want to take a picture. He has just been trying to make me laugh. My boy likes to be funny! I have always admired people who can make me laugh, and that were the life of the party. I myself am rather shy, and well not the life of the party. So thinking that I could have a child who would be funny was just nothing that I was ever able to imagine or conceive that one my children would want to be. No wonder when I would get annoyed at him, for making his weird noises, he would get upset. He was upset that he was unable to make me laugh. He was sad that I did not find him funny. My Viggo loves to make people laugh!
I know he is only three and that in his life he is going to go through so many personality changes. And I just want to remember this moment. I will try not to label and understand him through what he likes, but to truly sit back and watch who he is. He is my sweet SILLY Viggo..... for now. And that's okay because I look forward to finding out what else he will want to be in the future. Just, because in high school I liked the song "baby one more time" Britney Spears it did not mean I wanted to run around with midriff bearing shirts, and pigtails, with knee high stockings. Or just because I think people who sky dive and rock climb, or climb ABOVE the monkey bars, or people that can do a flip on a trampoline are like supper cool, does not mean you will EVER find me in this lifetime wanting to do those things. I love people's talent for drawing, but there is not a single bit of interest in me to want to learn this beautiful craft. And yes, I do know how the things we are surrounded by and like can influence us, but sometimes the things we like and admire have nothing to do with who we want to be. Sometimes we can just simply sit back and appreciate other things. And it took this Chicken Costume to allow me to learn this truth.
Hope you are all having fun getting ready for HALLOWEEN!
