Last year I put Osby in his costume early and took some yard photos. This year, that didn't happen because: 1) I didn't have it finished yet and 2) I was afraid to put him in costume until right before we were walking out the door. Instead, I got all the pumpkins Osby and Casey painted and put some felt faces on them and a little ribbon and presto. bango. my pumpkins are carved.
We had a fun time playing in the yard with teddy and looking all fall-like. Osby had a great time showing you he knows how to jump.
Osby was totally into Trick or Treating this year. On our way home from the party, we stopped by some of our neighbor's houses that live off our street and started our TorT. Osby did good knocking on the door. (or just saying "knock, knock") and then he would hold out his bag and say, "Treat". The kid knows what he wants... what can I say? Then we drove home and threw him in the wagon and went TorT on our street. As a side note, we should have dressed up as "parents of the year" as after 12 noon, my child only ate cake & ice cream, popsicle, and halloween candy. Dinner? nope. Nice, I know.
Osby's little friend, Jackie, had her 2nd birthday party on Halloween and it was the first party he has been too. It was quite successful for having a ton of 2 year olds together. Osby can be a little bossy it seems. I don't know where he gets that nonsense from. ;) We did good getting ready for the party. I made O's costume to be just a shirt, pants and hat as to cut down on the melt down factor and that seemed to do the trick. We got him dressed just like it was any other outfit. Had to bribe him with a popsicle to get the make-up on but that worked pretty good too. Troy and I went as dog catchers - Tag 'em or we Bag 'em.
Fall is such a weird concept in Texas. It doesn't really exist. Well.. that isn't really true. It will happen on a Tuesday then be hot again. Then happen on a Friday then get hot again and so on and so on. It finally cooled off for Halloween. By cooled off I mean in the 70s. YEA! Our girlfriend, Casey, came by and helped osby paint some pumpkins before Halloween. She mainly came by so I could make a dent in the mountain of stuff I have been doing. Pro bono poster here. Costumes for all three of us there. etc. etc. Thanks casey!
