Harry & Dobby

After the 50 millionth comment about Scott's crazy hair, we decided he needed to be Harry Potter for Halloween. 

 That naturally progressed to Jonah being Dobby--causing lots of mischief, but fiercely loyal to Harry  and best buddies. Plus, I thought he'd look cute in a pillowcase.

I dressed them up for the Santana Row trick-or-treat with vendors and they loved it.

 Ouch, I think his scar is hurting.

 Scott is into hand holding. Jonah isn't.

 I gelled Jonah's hair to look like Dobby's ears. It lasted for a few minutes.

 Working on his spells. I went to Target to buy a big black shirt to make Scott a robe, but they were sold out of every size. Instead, I found this nice Gryffindor robe for 6 bucks. It was huge, so I safety-pinned it smaller. I didn't want to cut and hem it because I'm lazy and also wanted him to be able to wear it until he's 10-12. Scott wore his church clothes and John's tie and voila. Cute, cheap costume.

 

At trunk or treat the Saturday before Halloween. Jonah wore a cut-up old pillowcase and socks. Nobody really knew who he was and it looked sad having him in rags next to Scott's professional/expensive looking ensemble, but that's why we have S.P.E.W.

Harry walked fearlessly right along in the costume parade.

John helped Dobby try to keep up.

This is the best group picture I got. John's parents are conveniently in the other ward that did the activity with ours.

Poor Jonah had face planted on our walk earlier, casuing a nice scrape/bruise/bump on his forehead.

Karen and Alan passed out the candy at our car so we could both go around with the boys. It was really fun--Scott caught on right away and Jonah loved walking around and seeing everyone.

On Halloween we went to get our free Krispy Kremes for being in costume. Scott shared a bite of his with Jonah! His first time sharing food, and it was a treat even!!

Then we stopped by John's work. Lots of coworkers came out to see the boys and take their pictures. 

 Debbie took these of Scott and John said at the party he was mentioned for the cutest costume.

Halloween night the Naylors came over for pizza and then we headed out to trick or treat in the neighborhood.

Scott was excited to play with Lincoln and run around outside.

Jonah tried to keep up.

We didn't think Jonah would do much actual trick-or treating, but he loved it.

 We wagoned him inbetween some houses to give him a break and dumped his candy in there so his bucket wasn't heavy.

 People loved the little kids. Jonah and Lou would get handfuls of candy. If they offered the basket, Jonah would take one and turn and run for it like he was getting away with something. If the people stayed inside, he'd walk right on in.

There aren't many kids in our neighborhood who trick-or-treat and we were the only ones who visited some houses, so they really loaded the kids up with candy--a few even gave out full-size bars. We ended up giving most of it to the primary to use, but it was fun to collect! This was definitely my favorite Halloween yet.

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I'm not sure how many more Halloweens I get to pick their costumes, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts.