Halloween Part II

We had the Downing/Franco group over to our house for dinner and festivities on Halloween night. In order by age, we had a pirate girl, an evil jester, a choo choo train, a pumpkin, and Genevieve, the youngest, was a lion. Renae, James and I all brainstormed about the train costume that we would construct. We all did our part to build it, but Renae ended up doing the majority of the work. It turned out great. We were a little nervous and wondering if Tristan would actually wear it because although he thought it was cool, our first “dress rehearsal” didn’t go very well. Nana Carol arrived at our house first to help us with any last minute preparations and thank goodness she did because we were running a bit behind. Tristan wasn’t a very happy train when we tried to show his full costume to Carol. By the time the other kids arrived and he saw that they were dressed up too, he happily wore it and played the part quite well with loud choo-choo noises. Joel wore a wig with long dreds and at one point we put it on Tristan, along with Andrew’s mask. He looked like a scary Cousin It with his hair touching the ground. We made it quite a long way around the neighborhood with the train on. Tristan was a trooper because it was actually a bit heavy for such a little guy. Ashley held his hand for most of the trick-or-treating and everyone had fun. Before leaving the house, James had also printed out signs for the side of the wagon that said “ZuZu’s Zoo.” ZuZu is Genevieve’s nickname and since she was a lion, we thought it would be funny if she was in a circus car, sort of part of Tristan’s train. She HATED the wagon and shortly after that she let us know she was done with the costume, so she made her way around the neighborhood in a onesie, while riding in the stroller. We took the double stroller and both Tristan and Maddy would take their turn riding for a while before the night was over. The grandparents stayed at our house to hand out candy and we found out that Grampie was asking all the kids if they wanted candy or a coupon for the dentist. Apparently a lot of kids were confused and most wanted the candy, but a few wanted both, so they got a business card for the band. Nice marketing trick, Grampie!






The next day I was able to get a good picture of our little lion!