Halloween 2012

This is the first year that Oliver has really "gotten" Halloween. He decided on his costume himself and spent days looking forward to the candy coming his way. At first he said he wanted to be Pete the Cat again. We told him he had to pick something different and he chose Woody from Toy Story. I didn't want to get him a store-bought costume but I was also crazy busy and didn't have time to make him one. Enter my talented mother. We went shopping a few weeks ago for supplies for the costume and she created the whole thing herself. I think it looked great!

My absolute favorite part of the whole costume was the loop for Woody's pull string on the back of the vest. So cute. And the best thing about it was that it was comfortable and he didn't mind wearing it.

On Halloween day, we all went to the fall festival at his school and then headed home to hand out candy. We set up chairs in the front lawn and waited for the trick-or-treaters. Oliver took his candy handing out duties very seriously. After a bit, he and Brian set out so he could do his own trick-or-treating. They were gone almost an hour (last year he made it to about three houses and then was done) and Brian said he did great at every house - saying "trick or treat" and "thank you" to everyone.