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.