Halloween 2011

On Halloween day, I took Garytt over to Justin's office for a little bit in the afternoon. Of course, he just loved all the attention he received from the students that we saw while walking across campus and all the employees we met in the office. Garytt is not shy and loves to be the center of attention!

After that, we came home for a bit to wait for the trick-or-treating to start. Trick-or-treat goes from 5pm-7pm here in Oshkosh, which was a little earlier than I expected. So, we quickly got Garytt back in his costume as soon as we had some dinner.

We posed him on the stairs with the Jack-O-Lanterns. He made some funny faces.











Then it was time to go trick-or-treating. Justin wore jeans and a turtle neck and called himself Steve Jobs.


Cat in the Hat and Steve Jobs


Off they go

Here is a video of them heading out to trick-or-treat.



I stayed home on candy duty, although I only had one trick-or-treater while they were gone. They didn't really stay out too long though because Garytt really doesn't understand the idea of getting free candy...and Justin and I don't need all that candy around...hahaha.

Here is a video of them returning. Apparently, Garytt's favorite part of the evening was when he saw a girl dressed as a lion...and he roared at her...maybe Garytt should have been a lion.



We played in the yard for a little while when they returned from trick-or-treating.






We are both "roaring" like a lion.


Us in front of the house.


Justin and Garytt acting silly

When Garytt saw the Jack-O-Lanterns lit up, he also wanted to play on our porch with them.


Jack-O-Lanterns lit up

So, we moved the big one up to the actual porch so he could look at it and took a video. Again, thanks to Mimi for the battery powered light. We couldn't let him play with the second pumpkin because I had an actual candle in that one.



Here are a few pictures of just Garytt in his costume. It is getting dark, so the background isn't that great. But I just have to take this opportunity and thank Grandma for Garytt's wonderful costume. She made the hat for his first birthday party. Then we thought we would just use black sweats for the costume, but she found a panda costume with a detachable hood for about $5 at a resell shop. We took the hood off and added a red bow tie and a cat tail (which she sewed up in like 10 minutes) and we had an instant Cat in the Hat. I loved the gloves on the costume, especially since it was chilly here last night.









We all enjoyed our Halloween this year. I loved Garytt's costume, especially since he was the only Cat in the Hat that I saw during any of the events that we went to during this past week. But it had to come to an end and the Cat in the Hat had to get a bath and become Garytt again.

We hope everyone had a safe and Happy Halloween!!