Halloween

I love Halloween and we were so excited that Deakin made his arrival before Halloween. We actually ordered his costume while we were still at the hospital. We didn't want to buy it ahead of time because then we were sure he wouldn't get here in time. So we rush shipped it right before Halloween. Originally he was going to be a turtle, but I was worried that his shell might make it harder to hold and/or lay down an infant that was only a couple of days old - so we went with a tree frog instead. When his costume got here it was huge - way to big for a newborn, even though it said that it started at 0 months. So we rolled the legs all of the way up and balanced the head covering on - he will still be able to wear it next summer, if not next Halloween. We are thinking about dressing him up for St. Patties day because its so cute and the color is right :)

Two days before Deakin got here, Scott and I both carved pumpkins. Mine is the kitty and Scott's is the scary face. The plan was to buy another pumpkin and carve it for Deakin if he arrived in time. We put off buying the pumpkin (not like we were busy or anything) until the day before Halloween - and everywhere was sold out. Scott finally found the little pumpkin in the floral department with a sticker of a goofy face on it. On Halloween - right as trick or treaters were showing up (so much fun to have trick or treaters this year) Scott scraped of the dumb face and carved Deakins pumpkin, which says "Boo!"

Here was the inspiration for Deakin's pumpkin. Isn't he too cute.

Halloween was a lot of fun. Deakin wasn't old enough to enjoy it (obviously) and he was not a big fan of his costume (only stayed in it long enough for a few pictures) but we had a good time. We had two little trick or treaters (maybe 2-3) come inside and chase our kitties - their dad was very apologetic but it was adorable, a Georgetown law grad who noticed the hoodie I was wearing and talked about what a great school it is, several congratulations on a new baby (he was helping hand out candy) and lots of people complimenting us on our awesome pumpkins!