Kaden the Puppy

For Halloween Kaden's preschool had a little fall party where the theme was the farm. So, we had to think of a costume that would be something on the farm. Kaden immediately wanted to be a puppy. He's in a dog phase right now, he pretends he's a dog... it's actually beneficial on our end... we pretend he's a dog and he will do anything... ANYTHING. "Kaden, please get your shoes on..." "No, momma"... "Puppy Kaden, come here. Stay. Sit. Put your shoes on." DONE!

Apparently this society doesn't think a three-year-old can be a puppy. That's reserved for babies under 18 months. We searched high and low for a puppy costume. Finally on Tuesday night (Thursday is his school party) we find a scooby doo costume in a 4T size. A dog is a dog, I guess. We talked about making his costume, but couldn't find a plain white hoodie sweatshirt. We tried the costume on on Wednesday night, and it was TOO SMALL! It was a whole size bigger than what he normally wears... so, what do we do... Joel and I put our heads together and made his costume out of my bathrobe. We turned the pockets into ears, the tie around the waist into the tail. It turned out a lot better than we could have hoped for for a two hour project starting at 11pm.

Kaden woke up and tried on his costume and it fit perfectly! He was a happy little puppy. He was the cutest little doggy in his class... I wish he would have let me paint his face, I would have given him a little black nose and a spot around his eye. My clean OCD child would have no part in that. LOL!

We hit up a harvest festival at my parent's church in Seattle... then on Halloween we went to Multnomah Village (where we hope to one day live) and went around the shops and trick or treated in the afternoon. It was really nice cause Kaden wasn't all scared in year's past with going from door to door. Some houses are too INTO Halloween. We felt a little lame being home by 6pm and chilled. But that's the life of a parent of a three year old. We even got a free Krispy Kreme doughnut for wearing his costume...

This picture is so fitting... Mei Mei and Uncle Zach just sent Kaden a book called, "If You Give a Dog a Doughnut".