The week before Halloween, the Dowtown Mall had games and trick or treating for the kids. Van refused to wear a costume. When we showed him his, he leaned back and said, "no, no, no, no, no, no, no". He got confused when Athen put on his costume. He would say "Mario! Athen! Mario! Athen!" Over and over and over.

It's Mario Time!

Oh, you didn't think we forgot Luigi, did you?

Van's dressed as a homicidal psychopath, they look just like everyone else.

I didn't mind that Athen chose to be Mario, but I was sure that it would be a pretty common costume. We were surprised at the amount of attention he got. Everywhere we went people were like, "there's Mario! Hey Mario!" They would shout to him from across the mall, and come up to him to check out his costume. Thank you Target.

This is so cool. We had to get a new DVD player so we let Athen take apart the old one. Athen was really into it all afternoon. Once he took it all apart Nile showed him what all the parts were and they used batteries to make the little motors inside work and so on. They had the best time.