Costume Makes the Clown

I realize it's been an obscenely long time since we've posted a blog. I have no excuse other than to say it's been a wonderful fall full of family and birthday celebrations. Above all else, though, it's been a sea of costumes at our house. Since Bub can be a pretty shy guy, we started talking about Halloween pretty early (let's say mid-September) to get him comfortable with the idea. When I picked him up at daycare one day, he was wearing a green costume (which Jen refers to as his fat suit, and I call his airbag). He was convinced that if he just wore it long enough, someone was bound to give him candy. Mind you, it was the first week of October. Since then, he's developed a passion for dressing up. At any given time, we have 2-4 costumes that he has borrowed from daycare at our home. He insists on sleeping with no less than 2 each night. But the costumes aren't just for sleeping. Oh no. He goes to the park in costumes, rides the train, helps make dinner, goes to playdates...all in a costume. Daycare has been overly accommodating. They even began bringing an extra stroller so that he could ride to and from the park without having to remove the costume (some of the get-ups are actually quite poofy, and he just doesn't fit in their 6-baby stroller wearing them). Each costume has its own name. I thought we could take a brief tour.

First, there's Green. Green was the original, the fat suit/air bag that started all of this. Green is still a staple, and generally winds up in the crib each night.

 Yellow is another fan favorite. We're thinking it is part of a Winnie the Pooh costume, but we've never seen the head piece, so it's hard to say.

We sadly don't have any pictures in Blue, but that one is similar to Yellow in design, though blue has the added bonus of some colorful feathers.

A new-comer to the group is Special. Special has only been around once thus far.

 Lastly, there's Princess. We just met her last night.

Owen decided it was necessary to wear Princess on the train this morning. God bless the Bay Area. We didn't get a single dirty look, only knowing smiles. We also had the opportunity to talk about the fact that he is allowed to wear whatever he feels comfortable in, regardless of what others may say about it. I blame this conversation partly on the fact that I read an article on the anniversary of the release of "Free to Be...You and Me".

I'd like you to note that the below photo depicts the Halloween costume we actually BOUGHT for him (an adorable black and white dog that looks just like Ashby).  There's very little interest in that one.