Superhero Day

Today, Troy’s school was celebrating Superhero Day in recognition of learning the vowels…which they called the super vowels. To make it more special and meaningful, they let the kids dress up in superhero costumes. Troy and I had gone to the Halloween store, hoping that we could double up with his Halloween costume too. Unfortunately, he wanted these bloody and gory ax murderers and zombies, which I didn’t think would go well at his Christian school. I really don’t know why he’s so into the dark and macabre. He’s obsessed with it. No matter how I try to steer him away, he always drifts back to it. We finally settled on a Venom costume, which was still horrifying but tame in comparison.

I figured that I could always send him without a mask, and then it would just look like a black Spider-Man costume. Nevertheless, Troy was pumped about the costume…in particular the fake muscles that ripple throughout the costume. In fact, he refused to take it off all day, even wearing it during lunch and outside on the playground…despite it being 95 degrees today. He reported back that his choice was a hit among the other kids, and that nobody else had a Venom costume…probably because nobody else thinks of Venom as a superhero. Oh well, it was worth it to see him so happy.