happy halloween!

When planning the kids' costumes I knew I wanted to do something as a theme for the two of them.  Asher is still young enough that he'll let me pick his costume (yay!) and Hadley obviously didn't care.  It ended up being a harder than I thought...

Ideas from the short list:

Peter Pan & Tinkerbell (rejected because I think we'll have a LOT of princess years in our future - no need to jump the gun)
Fireman & Dalmatian
Cow & Piggy

I still think any of these would have been darling, but ultimately decided to go with something a little more tongue-in-cheek.

You guys.  They have the need.  The need for speed.

Happy Halloween from Maverick and Goose!

(who refused to give me a decent picture together, but anyway.)

Babies dressed as farm animals is maybe the cutest thing ever so when I thinking of character pairs and realized that Goose could be a literal translation I jumped at it.

Except - well, did you know they don't sell goose costumes commercially?

Ducks, yes!  

Chickens, yes!  

Geese, nope.  

I looked high and low and Google let me down.  I was already committed to this idea so I did the next best thing and made Hadley's costume.  I bought the hat on Etsy but made the rest!  It turned out great but, honestly, costume design is NOT my thing.  Next year I'm buying costumes all the way.

We had a little neighborhood Halloween party on Sunday and the kids were a hit!

I'm sort of a celebrity now too.

But it was really Maverick who worked the crowd.

He also loved the decorate-your-own-cookie station.

and the bobbing donuts.  But he just couldn't not use his hands - ha!

Tonight we're going trick or treating and I can't wait to raid the candy after the kiddos go to bed.  (bwahaha - scary, right?)

Hope you all have fun too!