Halloween before Thanksgiving

Just after Halloween, I saw hundreds (or so it seemed) of Halloween photos of all my friends' kids on Facebook. It was fun seeing all the cute and clever costumes. And the kids...so adorable! I wanted to squeeze everyone of them!

And as I looked at picture after picture, I mentally made a goal (I thought facetiously) to post Ryan's Halloween pictures SOMETIME before Thanksgiving.

Well, here we are. Thanksgiving Eve.

So to reach my lofty goal....may I present Ryan: our little panda bear:

Last Halloween, I waited until a week before to go buy his costume and found out that that was entirely too late. We ended up being a banana. But he was a cute banana!

This time, I was determined to buy a costume early. I shopped online and found a great deal on a cute little panda costume back in September. September! That has to be some kind of record for me.

But when it arrived, it didn't look anything like the cute little panda I saw on-line. You can't see the eyes (which, believe me, is a very good thing), but they are scary. I thought about returning it, but knew I wouldn't find the time so I decided to make a note for Ryan to wear that said "my mom thought this was cute on the internet".

When Halloween finally came around, I abondoned the note idea. By that time I was used to the idea that my little boy would be a darling little panda with buggy eyes.

So with that, Happy Thanksgiving from our buggy-eyed, cute little panda bear!