Showing posts with label lion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lion. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

Happy Halloween!


Hi friends!  Did you make it out to see the Munchkin March at 
Farmers Market last night?  I had all kinds of big plans for these three.  
But one by one the plans got dashed with tears, miscommunications, 
costumes that were "itchy and hot", wrestling practice, and smeared make-up.  
Alas, life went on unplanned.  I did, however, get a chance to take some fun 
costume portraits of the kiddos downtown by the creek.  I was really hoping 
to get our photographer friend Richard down here to do the pictures, but we 
couldn't work it out.  But I'm pretty pleased with them anyway.  

On our way to the creek, we stopped by to see Leah and she loaded 
them up with all sorts of fancy sugary delights.  Note: Happy baby.  
  
At the creek, I said: "Ok, Elliott... now this character you're portraying is a 
BIG CRY BABY LION.  So you need to really focus and tap into that emotion."
He is such a pro.  Totally method.

And James?  I'm seriously thinking about getting him on a stage.  
He was so amazing as the Tin Man.  Gosh, I love this kid...

And here's Evy doing her "Dorothy face".  Isn't she good?!  
This was super fun and I'm so excited to get these printed and framed.  
I was telling Jeff last night, that I really like that the costumes aren't strictly 
"Halloween themed", because these photos will be cute and relevant all
year long.  I hope you have a great Halloween with your families!   



Update: A lot of people have been asking where we "found" the yellow brick road- so I'll go ahead and let you know now... this is just the plain old terracotta brick path by the Mission.  I just tinted it in editing later. 

Friday, October 12, 2012

Halloweenies and sickies and such...


Yesterday I came to the conclusion that the central coast has gone ahead and skipped Fall this year.  We've gone straight from summer to winter.  I mean, just a week ago we were having an obnoxious heatwave, and now here we are battling the flu, wearing footy jammies, and blasting the heaters.  What gives, weather?!  Elliott doesn't seem too bothered.  Even with a gross runny nose, and less time outdoors...  Give him a Hot Wheels car and an applesauce crusher, and he's pretty stoked on life.  


We kept ourselves busy throughout the week of plague, by trying on Halloween costumes, baking way too many brownies, and catching up on our Caillou.  But we finally ventured out a few days ago and the kids were SO excited to find the goofy Halloween cutout at Trader Joes...


And of course, they made new friends...


Ohhh, these crazy kidlets.  ♥