happy halloween!

we've had a pretty low-key halloween around these parts--we don't even get trick-or-treaters. the first year we lived here we even bought some candy for potential trick-or-treaters and ended up having to eat it all ourselves. we learned our lesson. we didn't even buy a pumpkin to carve this year. but we DID make some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, which are delicious, and we did dress up for a party last night and had two cute costumes for dane. so all in all we feel pretty good about our celebrations.

first off, dane was a pumpkin.

he flirted it up at the party we went to with an older woman: naomi is a full two weeks older than he is. look at his dane's chillaxin' pose. he did turn his face and give her this big smile after this photo.

unfortunately, our costumes didn't coordinate with his--ours are total cop-out costumes that we wore last year: 50s teenagers. but at least we dressed up!

and then tonight dane wore his cool cat costume that his grandma leininger brought out to durham when she visited. the awesome thing about this costume is that it was tommy's costume on his first halloween 27 years ago. but tommy was born in november, so he was approximately ten months older than dane is right now. look at the two of them!

and then he was really cute and smiley when we asked him to.

until he started getting tired... (but oh, look at those cheeks!)

yep, that's it. we're done with this photoshoot.

happy halloween!