Trick or Treat!

The city I grew up in is kinda strange with Halloween because we have what we call "Beggar's Night", a night separate from Halloween when the kids get to go trick-or-treating. We do it, I think, because Halloween brings out some creepy people sometimes, especially when the holiday falls on a weekend. Anyway, this year, it was last night, and I have pictures!

Before I post them, I must do some explaining. Andrew has had 3 Halloween costumes. The first one we bought before he was born because they were super cheap after Halloween last year. That turned out to be a not-so-good idea, because Andrew ended up being WAAAAAAY too big for it. It was really cute though. It was a pea pod, but it only fits babies up through 9 months. Ummm... Andrew's in 18-month clothes now. We gave it away.

A couple weeks ago, there was this huge sale going on at one of the local middle schools, put on by this group in Columbus made up of mothers of twins in the area. We found this cute lobster costume that looked like it would fit Andrew, and the size was 1T. 1T? What size is that? I've never heard of it before! Anyway, it might've fit Andrew when we bought it, but it was just a titch too small yesterday, when we tried it on him (which is why he doesn't look too happy):

Initially, he liked playing around with all the arms and stuff sticking out of it, but then I think it began getting a little stuffy.

Fortunately, my mom and I went shopping for some clothes for Andrew last week (because he was growing out of his 12-month stuff), and found a cute OSU jersey and matching pants that we thought might be able to double as a costume in case the lobster outfit didn't work out. Which it didn't. We put it on him, and he was ready to go outside to help mom, dad, grandma and grandpa pass out candy to the kids!

There's the whole group! Excluding me, of course, since I was taking the picture.

Later on, it got cold, so we had to put a jacket, a hat and gloves on Andrew to keep him warm, but he loved being outside!

Yay for Halloween!

As a side note, I only just barely realized that the colors on the background of my blog look really Christmassy. Well, it's going to stay! I love Christmas. I meant for the background to look fall-ish, so I'll be changing my background as soon as Thanksgiving is over to an obviously Christmas background. Haha.