Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Happy Howl-oween!

(I stole that from my punny sister, Za)

I thought I'd add our Halloween 2011 to the mix of the thousands of people blogging, Twittering, and Facebooking their Halloweens this year...tonight was just too much fun not to!

When I first asked Oliver what he wanted to be for Halloween, on 2 separate occasions he told me he wanted to be a cow. He was very clear about this. We went to a Halloween store and found the toddler-sized cow costumes, and Oliver tried it on. I'm not sure why, but somehow it freaked him out and he wanted NOTHING to do with cows. Ok. On to plan B. I gathered a ton of ears attached to headbands - dog, cat, zebra, tiger, giraffe...you name it, I grabbed it - and brought them over for him to see. After Za and I modeled some ears for him, Oliver was inspired to try some out, and decided to be a dog! Of course we got puppy ears, tail, and a cat basket as his costume. He even wanted to wear the ears out to lunch :)

So here is our little puppy dog, with the ears I was SURE would be ripped off in 10 seconds, but he LOVED them and ran around telling everyone he was a dog, then barking! 

 He refused to change shirts into a color that matched his little ears and tail, so he was a stripey dog...and VERY pleased about that!

And the REAL dogs sported their costumes this year, and Daisy was, again, Dr. Daisy. It was fitting since we live in a neighborhood that is almost exclusively medical residents - so many people live in scrubs around here that they barely noticed a dog dressed in them :)
 Needless to say, only Daisy joined us trick-or-treating. Can you imagine Chester out there with all the people in costume? So he stayed home and watched the swarms of kids from the bedroom.

Oliver was super excited to get his tail put on, and flashed Za this smile that he reserves just for her when she's behind the camera. I can't get him to smile like this - it's a Za thing.

We met up with his good buddy, Kenzie, who was also a puppy dog, and these two cutie-pies spent the evening running around and finding houses with lights on. They were so excited to be dogs for the night!

Knocking doors - they would knock continuously and loudly until someone would answer. Nich taught Oliver to say "trick or treat."
 And people answered with CANDY!! Oh Oliver thought this was FABULOUS!!
 Look! CANDY!!! He HAD to have a few pieces while we walked to the next house.

And more nice people with candy! Here's Nich with Oliver and Kenzie with her mom. Can you believe she had a baby 4 months ago? A cute little boy dressed as a basketball :)

And here's a surprise person answering the door on Halloween!
 He was a FANTASTIC Santa. We are so going over there over Christmas and get getting pictures with him!

And Oliver with his Za and his Daisy :) Two of his favorite ladies!

 And our little (but growing) family!
And pardon my giant face - there IS a giant belly there to match at 36 weeks pregnant. I managed to hide it pretty well behind Oliver!

HAPPY HOWL-OWEEN!!!

 Oh, and here we are at 7:00 the next morning with all the CANDY!!! Notice the bit of brown still on Oliver's nose...he wanted to sleep as a doggy too last night :)