Evan's been very excited to try on his Halloween costume - a fabulous fuzzy monkey complete with banana in hand. We finally tried it on tonight, and it was a total and complete disaster. There were rough fabric edges on the inside which he said hurt (he was right!), and once I got those cleaned up, he was terrified to put it on again. He finally agreed to "just one more", but burst into tears again the moment it was zipped up. Sadly, he went to school for the Halloween party in a shirt that had a monkey on it - that was as close as he would get to the costume.
However - peer pressure reigned at school! When he arrived and saw all his friends in costume (and his buddy in a monkey costume too), he pondered for a moment before asking daddy to get out the costume. He somberly (though not quite happily) put it on and marched out of the room with everyone else for a trick-or-treat parade down the hall. Now I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the costume ended up only being on him for 10 minutes or less before he once again decided he'd had enough.
On Halloween itself, daddy and Evan came up to DC to hang out with Auntie Chrissy and Uncle Jeff and stay in the hotel while mommy was working at a conference. Daddy had a great Man With the Yellow Hat costume to go along with Evan's monkey - they'd make an awesome Curious George pair! However, Evan had been traumatized enough and was having none of it. He was perfectly happy, however, to put on the big yellow hat himself and carry his Curious George doll around. I think daddy was secretly pleased too...
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