Lucas Camilo

Lucas had been preparing for more than a month for our Halloween costume — the Okee Dokee Brothers, a bluegrass kids music band that is a current favorite. Still, we scrapped together our oufits at the last second, as did Ida and Krista (Ida had rejected her big bunny costume that she wouldn’t wear for more than 30 seconds at a time). Then we all hit the street on a beautiful fall afternoon in Seattle.

We slowly strolled around the neighborhood, only managing to cover a full block loop. But we saw our old neighbors on 36th (where a number of houses have ramps that allow Lucas to roll right up to the door), and ran into other friends on our current block. All the while Lucas and I sang our Okee Dokee songs. We were probably out for an hour but it was a ton of fun. In the past, the anticipation of Halloween for Lucas has never lived up to the actual experience, especially since he can’t eat candy and usually isn’t even able to approach front doors to say trick or treat. This time was glorious.

Here’s some video of the Okee Dokee Brothers in action, along with the rainbow-dinosaur-cat-in-the-hat: