Vinny’s first Halloween
Posted on October 2, 2007 in the Parenting, Stay At Home Dad category
Yes, Vinny is almost 21 months old so technically this will be his second Halloween but for our own selfish pursuits (i.e. dressing him up in something painfully cute) this will be his first. Truthfully, I don’t even remember what, if anything, we did last year for Halloween but this year will be fun as now we have two children to torture by putting them into costumes and taking pictures that can be used to bribe them when they are teenagers. Besides, it is unlikely that the grandparents will watch the children so we could get Sexy Halloween Costumes for Mary and I.
So what to dress them in. We know it must be something that is worthy of their cuteness - in no way do we want to detract from their shining, happy faces. Of course, being this young, Halloween is so much more for the parents than for them - and has nothing to do with being scary. What we need is a double dose of cute. I will, of course, have to talk it over with wifey, but here is what I have come up with for Vinny and Simon.
My son is absolutely in love with Gwen Stefani - he even sings along and dances to her videos (my fault, I do the same thing:). This, of course is a dead end as I am not about to dress him up as Gwen, nor would it be likely that I find a Gwen Stefani Costume made for a toddler. Besides, if he was dressed as Gwen, what would Simon be. . . a Harajuku Girl? I don’t have that kind of money for therapy.
When looking for something a bit more age/gender appropriate, I found a Tigger costume for Vinny. I guess that might mean that poor Simon is stuck with Eeyore! Either way, I know Vinny will have fun - he just has such a personality and I can already hear him saying “Trick or Treat!” We will have to be careful though as Simon scares easily. 
I found these costumes at CostumeCauldron.com. Something else I found was that, at CostumeCauldron there is a secret HAUNTED HOUSE backdoor on the website that gets people a great discount. To find it you need to go to the homepage and at about halfway down click on the comma in the line that reads “Our Store now has over 14,000 masquerade items for you to choose from!” This will whisk you away to the discount page. Don’t worry, I will post some pictures to let you know how things turn out!
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