Our first Halloween in Georgia. My main goal for this Halloween was to help Riley choose a costume that wasn't another troll. We started talking about costumes months before Halloween. I knew she'd change her mind plenty of times so I waited to commit to something until it seemed like her answer to the question, "What do you want to be for Halloween?" started being consistent. She decided she wanted to be Detective Hops, the main character in one of our very favorite movies, Zootopia.
I think it's so cute that people put together these family themed costumes, but I also don't like spending money on things for one night of cuteness. Riley wanted us all to be characters from Zootopia, so I figured I could at least get a costume for Nelson from the movie. We wanted him to be a little fennec fox, but it may not surprise you a fennec fox costume for a two year old was not easy to find. Ben came up with the idea that Nelson could be the fennec fox when he dresses up like an elephant in the movie. Perfect! Elephant costumes were MUCH easier to find.
Putting together Riley's costume was fun. I didn't want to just buy the Detective Hops costumes because they weren't very cute and it didn't look very hard to put together. I bought some bunny ears and police outfit. I also looked up some ideas for bunny face paint. Painting on her bunny face was one of the proudest moments of my life. I was very impressed with my own work!
On Halloween night Ben came home right before we were going out to trick-or-treat. He disappeared for a minute and came out in the perfect Nick costume! It almost made me regret not getting any sort of costume for myself, but the three of them were cute enough.
We were invited by a friend to come trick or treating with them in their neighborhood. Our neighborhood doesn't have sidewalks so we gladly accepted the offer to go to a more little kid friendly area. One interesting thing was that everyone puts their candy out on a table, we didn't knock on any doors! Some people sit out with the candy so they can see the kids go by, but my guess is that since it's such a popular neighborhood they don't want to have to come to the door every 10 seconds.
Riley and Nelson had an absolute ball. Nelson was absolutely adorable in his little elephant costume, and even though it was definitely too warm for that costume he wasn't phased at all. He was laser focused on collecting candy, no matter how rosy his little cheeks were getting. I should've taken off his outfit, but he was just getting so many compliments! Once it got dark we took off the hat and let his head breathe. He also was holding on to his pumpkin for dear life, but it got pretty heavy after we'd been going for a while. Ben had to start stuffing candy in his pockets so sweet Nelson could still carry that heavy thing. Riley was so jazzed the whole night. Saying things like Halloween is the best night! Isn't it the best Clara?? We are having so much fun! But she didn't have never-ending energy. When we suggested heading back to the car she was definitely on board. She just wanted to start eating some of her collection!
I'm not a huge lover of the creepy parts of Halloween (like the house down our street with it's yard full of severed body parts!), but I do love the sweet little kids dressing up and living there best lives!
