Chasing Butterflies Daily

Halloween is fast becoming one of the biggest celebrations of the year worldwide. It's enjoyed by little 'uns as well as older and drunker humans as an excuse for revelries, especially of the night for the latter. For many of the rest of us it's the small bastion we hold on to before all the people who'd have Christmas all year round if they could, force us to live with Christmas through November (sorry if you're one of "those" people - I don't hate Christmas I just believe it belongs in December and any excessive celebration ahead of time just makes me enjoy it less).  As a Swede I didn't really grow up with Halloween being much of a thing. We dress up as witches for Easter but that's for another post and for us the 1st of November is a bigger tradition. It is known as "Allhelgona afton" - All Saint's eve - and is a day for remembering our lost loved ones. Lights are lit everywhere in our deep Nordic autumn darkness, ...

Some Halloween spirit for you while also covering some dwarfism awareness. Husband got the kids some Halloween costumes yesterday - every year we discuss ideas to so as a family and then inevitably we end up buying from the supermarket. One year we'll get round to making some fun themed costumes but not this one! He'd brought back a skeleton baby grow for our son. It's a size 12-18m which is pretty much ideal when it comes to torso length (despite being 2.5 years old his disproportionate form of dwarfism - achondroplasia - means his limbs grow slower than his average height peers which means clothes take extra planning) and it is only a little long in the sleeve. The trousers are a no go though as the bottoms he has that fit are either 6-9 or 9-12 months.  Worth noting that just like average height kids all grow differently so do kids with achondroplasia, their height and limb lengths can vary greatly so what fits Elis just now won't necessarily work for ano...