happy Halloween!

We got in our trick-or-treating in advance, actually - Hendrik's school did a trunk or treat event on Friday night, and then there's always a lot of downtown stuff in our area, so we enjoyed some games and candy at our local museum on Saturday as well. Which means I already got my cute photos, and I can use them to wish you all a happy and fun Halloween today...

I love a Halloween costume that has a set of PJs as the base - it's cute, and it's also handy because if you're going to spend $$ on a costume, you might as well have something that you can use (part of) for the rest of the fall/winter! And of course as soon as we saw this parrot option (well, scarlet macaw if we're being technical about it, and you better believe Hendrik is), we were sold on this for my bird-obsessed boy.

Hanna Andersson had several great mask/cape type options in addition to this parrot one, and I've also seen great, and quite inexpensive, options from H&M; if you're into simple DIYs with similar bases, Primary.com also has a whole DIY Halloween costume page with a lot of fun ones that utilize PJs or simple sweats/sweatshirts - keep all of those on handy reference for next year if you like this type of easy and cute costume too!