Poor guy on the right is already decomposing.
That is one disgruntled clown. But so cute, no?
I brought the costume to our ward Halloween party anyway, just in case. Of course he wouldn't wear it. I put him in his Superman pajamas instead. He seemed ok with that, but I did have to safety pin the cape on, because he does not like the cape, and he tugged and yanked at it for the first 20 minutes. Then I think he forgot about it.
It was just me and Kimball, since Jordan was at an academic conference in Baltimore over the weekend. We sure missed him, but Kimball and I had a great time. We are best buddies!
Mr. Stoic, there.
Here's the little guy having a blast playing games, winning prizes, and of course, eating CANDY!
Heading out with the bucket he picked out himself.
Tugging at that darn cape.
He won a superman duck! It was lost before we left the party.
Won a cupcake (I won it for him) playing the cake walk.
"Bobbing" for donuts. After his first nibble, they took it down and gave it to him.
Kimball found one of his friends!
You can tell by the way his cheeks are puffed up that he's smiling at her.
Hugs!
Having a blast.
The parking lot is lined with cars with decorated trunks. The kids get to "trunk-or-treat", and people sit by their cars and pass out candy. The first trunk we visited let out a blood-curdling scream as we reached in for some candy, and it really scared Kimball! For the next few trunks I had to hold him and he kept his hands over his ears. He still tells me about the loud trunk when I mention trick-or-treating to him.
This was the best "treat" of all! (According to me, of course.)
The Mad Hatter won a costume award. It was a kid, but I'm still not sure if it was a boy or a girl!
This family won first place for best family costumes, and they were awesome! They are characters from Pixar's "Up". The wife made the bird herself; the head and neck are paper mache.
Happy Halloween!
7 comments:
Kimball's fear of his clown costume makes me wonder if fears are really learned. According to scholars, we're only born with two fears--heights and dark. But, when would Kimball have ever had an experience, in his short life, that would've left him with a fear of clowns? The same thing happened to my friends' little boy. He was afraid of our cat, but he had never been around cats to get a fear like he had.
Anyway, Kimball looked very cute in his Superman "costume" and it looks like he had a lot of fun.
That's interesting, Jenni. I truly think that we also have an inherent fear of spiders.. You know, since only our ancestors who avoided the deadly ones survived. But maybe that's just me. Seeing a spider outside is one thing, but seeing one inside gives me the shivers!
I don't think Kimball has any idea what a clown is, or that the costume is even supposed to be a clown. I think it's just the loudness and flamboyancy of it that he thinks is weird. He's also settled into a stage of not liking to get dressed, period. Add to that a werid-looking (to him), baggy thing that arrived in a package, and you get him running away at the sight of it. But who knows what really goes through the heads of these little people?
I love those "Up" costume. We actually had some people at our trunk-or-treat do the same thing. They tied a ton of balloons to their car and passed those out instead of candy. Some people are so creative...
Here's to toddlers that won't wear what you want them to :). (But he always makes a cute Superman.)
Kimball makes a spectacular Superman!!! I just love pondering what he must have been thinking after the first few trunks where he got candy, candy, candy (not counting the screaming trunk, that is)!!! The picture of you two best buddies is so darling! Kimball looks like such a grownup kid in the dizzy video; where did the baby go?
Love, love, love Kimball's shoes :D
I love it! It's funny that Kimball won't wear the clown costume. Jenni may have a point about this but I don't know. Jonathan wouldn't wear the mask for his costume. At least Kimball didn't puke all over while trunk or treating. Hehe. I agree with Deon, his shoes are AWFULLY cute.
On a side note, you're never going to guess who I have become friends with.
Kat, your'e killing me. Email me!
Kimball has the right idea - clowns *are* scary!
-also a clown-phobe as a kid (and...maybe still? lol)
(Adding to the academic discussion above, I do think we are born with certain inherent phobias because of evolution - I remember one of my profs saying that studies show it is easy to condition a fear of spiders/snakes/bugs in someone, but hard to condition a fear of like...bunnies or something. This was in a "philosophy of mind" class when we were learning about evolutionary psychology.)
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