Halloween Night: 2011

I saw a picture of a toddler dressed like a knight and a baby as a red dragon on the Martha Stewart website a few weeks ago. I was at a total loss of ideas at that point, knew I had the dragon costume as an option and the duo was born. Carson's outfit was beyond easy when I found the gray sweats, a dollar sword and a couple-dollar shield at Target. I had bought fabric for a cape for him a while ago and hadn't gotten around to making it yet. It all happened to be the right colors too. I whipped up a cape during nap time on Sunday (yes, I'm a procrastinator) and we were good to go. I topped it off at the last minute with one of my headbands and we had the knight and the dragon! I would have let him be whatever he wanted, but every.single.option. we gave him he said yes to. It was getting impossible to narrow it down and he wasn't coming up with anything concrete!

I knew we had an hour of daylight left when I started cooking dinner last night. All I cared about was getting out for a few photos of the boys' costumes and then we could do whatever we wanted. Of course Max fell asleep about 20 minutes before it was time to go out. I had to get him up (because of the light) and the poor kid was so sleepy. We quickly got pics in the front yard and then trick-or-treated for about 45 minutes. Carson had a ton of fun, but was sick yesterday so he got burnt out really fast. Overall they were as cute as I'd hoped and we all had fun.

I tried to get Max to balance sitting up long enough for a photo, but he kept falling over. Darn that heavy head!

I couldn't help but go back to Carson's first Halloween to compare. These kids look so much alike! I love love love them and those cheeks!! It's so hard to believe Carson was ever this little. (Man, my hair was LONG back then!)

I had to do this too: