Today was Halloween. This has become a huge event in this household, since Neko is finally old enough to understand it involves a costume and a candy pay-out. But mostly it’s about the costume. I’m sorry, that should be costumes, plural. Last week she was set on being a ballerina. Then it was a ballerina with dinosaur hands and feet. Then she became a pink cat (much like a ballerina with ears, tail, and whiskers), and then a black cat. She had settled on the black cat, but then made a last minute addition to become a black cat in a ballerina outfit with one ballet shoe and one regular shoe. There was going to be a magic wand, too, but she and Shep started arguing over it and, like magic wands sometimes do, it magically disappeared.
Shep was a rock star, since he carries around a guitar half of the time at home. Go figure, the one time he refuses to carry a guitar? Halloween. His ABCD shirt seemed to be enough for a costume, but he petered out around two houses in due to a bad diaper rash. Must remember to add that to the list of stories to tell at his wedding.
Ellery was a bear. This is a fun comparison of Shep in the same costume.
Special thanks to Kim, John, and Mary who hosted us for a real neighborhood trick-or-treat, since we don’t have sidewalks and trick-or-treating could only be done in our neighborhood by car or horse.
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Wow! The Ellery/Neko comparison was interesting, but there was no doubt that those were different children. But Shep and Ellery look VERY similar! Shep had more of his baby chub left at that point in his life and there’s a slight differnce in the shape of the eyes, but other than that – you’d swear it was the same baby!