Happy Halloween! We had a fun family night with our little zebra. Of course she didn't start out as a zebra. I honestly hadn't planned on dressing her up at all. I don't know why, but I just hadn't thought much about it. I figured she was too little to care. I haven't dressed up in many years. Plus I am way too practical and didn't want to buy a costume for her to wear just around the apartment since our complex doesn't even have Trick or Treaters. This all changed around 5pm tonight. I saw a couple of other costumes that friends had put their babies in and all of the sudden I felt convicted. This was her first holiday. How could I not embrace it and dress her up in some silly costume? I asked Ryan why we hadn't gotten her a cute costume like all of the other "cool parents" and he reiterated that I am very, very practical. He also agreed that we should dress her up so that we had a cute photo for her baby book.So at 5:30pm on Halloween we were cruising down the aisle at Walmart looking for a tiny costume. The leftover picks were strange and huge so I convinced him to make another stop at Babies R Us. We lucked out and they had one zebra costume left in size 0-3 months....for 75% off!!! It pays to be a last minute Halloween shopper. I also like that the costume is basically just a cozy, striped sleeper that she can wear again on cool fall days and not just tonight (oops...there is that practical side of me). We changed her in the store and headed to dinner.
We went to eat at Benihana's so we could use the awesome birthday coupon they sent Ryan before it expired. Did you know they have a birthday club you can join and get a free meal the month of your birthday? At another table there was a cute baby girl that was only 5 weeks old and dressed like a candy corn. Glad we dressed up our baby and didn't look like lame-o parents in public :) Also we would like to apologize to the other restaurant patrons that had to listen to our hungry baby cry while we tried to heat up a bottle in a cup of hot water. I'm sure that wasn't the kind of scary they were looking for tonight.
Time for this sleepy zebra to go to bed. Hope everyone enjoys some candy tonight!
Aw, so sweet! With Melissa and Caedon I thought nothing of getting them a costume for their first Halloween since I had an older one so I knew we'd be going out for Halloween/Fall Festival stuff (3 times this year to be exact....). But Kyler's first Halloween costume basically was wasted. It was the cutest little Squirt (from Finding Nemo) costume and we were going to go trick-or-treating with some friends but then Kyler got sick. :( Oh well, at least I got some cute pictures of him in it.
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