Trick or….ummm….Daddy?

Who knew you could cancel Halloween? Not Cecilia and her buddy Jackson. They braved snow, ice and town decrees to wait till Friday in order to swagger up to stranger’s homes and demand candy. This year we didn’t make a lot of progress in the costume department (you won’t see Tinker Bell’s wings or wand or any photo), but she did enjoy the freedom of exploring stranger’s yards and peeking in their front doors, especially if there was a dog in costume. The candy was just a nice bonus for the free home tours. Tip for grandparents and aunts and uncles: you’ll make a friend for life if you give Cecilia a glow stick.

The Great Mumpkin

Ce is still working on those initial plovise sounds so all October it was mumpkin this and mumpkin that. Here are some mumpkin carving pics:

Let’s Go to the Hop!

The emphasis on this year’s costume was 1) integrating the red shoes for compliance and 2) not having it look too much like a costume that she’d start fighting to take it off 4 seconds after wearing it. We went with a simple (i.e., not expensive) 50′s poodle skirt sort of thing. Mission accomplished. Cecilia had a busy holiday weekend with a day care party, a neighborhood party and then trick or treating and once we bribed her into the costume her only complaint was that more people didn’t recognize the brilliance of sparkly shoes.

PS – We’re saving the obvious Dorothy costume. Daddy has a sweet cowardly lion costume in the closet, but he says in the movie the lion doesn’t get tendinitis from carrying Dorothy down the yellow brick road so why should he. Plus we need the pig tails. Maybe by next year.

Scenes from Halloween

Certainly the first Halloween is more for the parents. Lord knows what Cece made of her costume. I think she found the Huggy Bear style hat a bit annoying as it kept falling her eyes. The rest she probably figured was yet another attempt by her parents to cover her in luscious, plush padding to avoid any bumps and bruises as she begins to become mobile. I think I’ll just let the pictures do the rest of the talking.

The last one shows some of her friends at school (unfortunately I missed her buddy Jackson who was the most adorable guitar). She had a Halloween parade on Friday. She found it totally befuddling. And Lola was a banana this year (all Lola costumes over the years courtesy of her nutty Aunt and Uncle, in case you had the idea we were crazy dog people).