Halloween 2012- Chester's first Halloween!

  So Halloween 2011 I was very much pregnant. I was HUGE and it looked like there was no end in sight. I walked around with my niece getting her as much candy as we could. All that walking still didn't help my little man on his way. So he was snuggling away nice and warm in my belly for that Halloween. This year, however, he was very much here and ready to get some candy. For Mom and Dad to eat, of course. When we went to the Halloween costume store the year before I got pregnant, we saw the most adorable garden gnome costume for a baby. We decided at that very moment, our future child would definitely have to be dressed in that costume. So of course we were hoping for a boy (for many other reasons) because a gnome costume would not be the best fit for a girl. So when Halloween rolled around this year, we purchased Chester the gnome costume about two months ahead of time. This- for obvious reasons- was a very bad idea. If you have a child, you're probably shaking your head right now thinking, "You know how much your child will grow in two months!" Yes, I do now! We tucked his costume away in the closet and one day, before Halloween I attempted to try it on him, but he wasn't very cooperative. So I just left it at that and decided I'd wait until Halloween to put him in it. Right before we were heading out to trick or treat, I started putting his costume on. I knew it was going to be extremely cold so I wanted him to have extra layers on under his costume. I put some babylegs, socks and a long sleeve shirt on him. Once I started getting the costume on, I realized we were going to have a bit of a problem. It didn't fit! I was barely able to button the pants and there was no way I was going to be able to close the shirt. So we just went with it. Once we got to Cristina and Abigail's house, we realized it was way too cold for Chester to go in just his costume. We decided to put his monkey hat and his monkey coat on. This turned out to be a bit of a costume change at the last minute. He ended up being a monkey/Curious George, since that's who was on his coat. We walked around with "Princess Abigail", Hope and Patrick until Chester got too cold and Craig took him back to Cristina's nice warm house. A little while later, we all filed in freezing and ready to warm up. Abigail rang the door bell and said trick or treat to Cristina. It was adorable because she said, "Okay, I'm done. Can we go get candy from my Mommy now?" I love how much Chester and Abigail get along, so I was super excited to go trick or treating with them. I decided several things about next Halloween though. First, we will not get his costume until a week or so before Halloween. Next, we will absolutely be looking at the weather to see how cold it will be so we can base his costume off that. Also, we need more chocolate! We went through Chester's candy so quickly, I was sad to see all the chocolate go. I think next year it would be fun to have coordinating costumes. I was sad that Chester's gnome costume didn't fit him, because he looked so cute in it! I can't wait for next Halloween though, I think Chester will have a better time than he had this past Halloween. I hope he enjoys watching "The Nightmare Before Christmas" better and just has more fun overall. We're definitely carving pumpkins next year too. We just got so busy and kept putting it off, I still have the pumpkin! Overall though, we had a pretty good Halloween. It's Craig's favorite time of the year. Fall, Halloween, October and the color orange are all his favorite. I think that has something to do with being born October 22nd. Being with him so long has changed my favorite season to Fall though. It used to be and somewhat still is Spring. I just like Fall a lot better now. I hope Chester grows up loving Fall as much as we do. So here's to future Halloween nights for the Fender family. May we be better prepared than we were this year.
Enjoy these photos I took to document Chester's very first Halloween!