This year Elias wanted to be a firefighter and we kicked off the Halloween shenanigans the second weekend in October at Disneyland (more about that trip in a separate post), getting in on a Friday afternoon in time for the special evening Halloween party at the park. We got his costume at Costco and in September, I believe it was, he was kind of in between sizes. By early October and even more so by Halloween, the costume was a bit too short. The suspenders had to be removed (and last year's big bad wolf suspenders used instead) and even so they turned out to be wedgie-inducing highwater firefighter pants. But the rest of the costume worked out well and Eli didn't seem to mind the ill-fitting pants! I made him an Oakland-specific shirt to go under the jacket, matching the neon strips, and a play firefighter's axe made from cardboard, felt, and a wooden dowel. Nobody got the axe, a couple of folks commenting on the scary, axe-murderer firefighter. Firefighters needed axes, you know, to cut down walls and such that have collapsed. Or something like that.
We made it to the same two pumpkin patches we went to last year, one with Eli's preschool class, the other with Neal on the weekend.
This year Eli was old enough to ride the cow train solo. He even posed for a picture in one of the retired cows.
Another tradition has been a Halloween parade and trick or treating in one of the nicer 'hoods of Oakland.
You can spot my baby belly in the back, circa 6 months and change. Later that weekend Eli supervised pumpkin carving.
Then made silly poses with finished jack-o-lanterns...
...and spared pumpkins (plus Xander, the cat):
We trick-or-treated with Eli's buddy Max. Eli's reflector strips showed up well in the flash photography.
We didn't have many trick-or-treaters back at home, or maybe we got back too late, something I felt a little bad about after the fact, especially since it meant we were left with way too much Halloween candy!
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