Canadian Tire to the Rescue

One week after the Home Depot debacle, Emmett successfully sources out a race car cart at Canadian Tire, terrorizes the store, and very nearly bounces a self-decapitating Halloween witch off his windshield.

Hallowe'en

Last year, Curious George and the man with the yellow hat ventured out on a warm October's night for a night of trick or treating. This year, a dragon and the Paper Bag Princess braved the cold, snowy conditions while the Cat in the Hat shelled out. Records were set...a grand total of 11 kids came to the door, smashing the record of six last year.

 

"A beautiful princess named Elizabeth was going to marry a handsome prince named Ronald. But a dragon came and burnt up her castle, burnt up her clothes and carried off Prince Ronald.

Elizabeth put on a paper bag that wasn't burnt and followed the dragon to his cave." (Robert Munsch)

The princess wore the paper bag to work, where she placed first in the office costume contest, and was awarded a $50.00 gift certificate. Not a bad Hallowe'en haul for a costume that she put together five minutes before work, and cost her 40 cents.

I'm watching you, Cat. Hands off.

 

Happy Hallowe'en!

 

Up from the depths, 30 stories high

Scarcely one month after a monkey and his yellow-hatted friend terrorized the neighbourhood, a new destructive force appears on the horizon:

EMZILLA!

Chew dat gum, chew dem bones

For Halloween this year, Emmett's parents thumb their noses at all the suffocation warnings, wrap Emmett in plastic and balloons, and call him a gumball machine. Then they do the same thing to themselves.

Trick or treating doesn't amount to much, but Emmett shows great interest in the graveyard on Cousin Rod's front lawn. He is particularly fond of the bones strewn among the headstones (clearly, his parents should have opted for the blood-smeared zombie costume).

Originally disconcerted by his behaviour, Emmett's mom fesses up that she vaguely recalls maybe introducing a 7 month-old Emmett to skeletal gorging at a BBQ ribfest in New Zealand.

Much too gross anatomy

On the eve of Halloween, Emmett exhibits an early aversion to pumpkin guts. That pretty much rules out a career in cardiothoracic surgery.

Neurological reconstruction, however, remains a possibility.

StranMcCann Shop of Horrors

Short list of potential 2010 Halloween costumes for Emmett:

1. Inflating-head Oenophile

2. Dwarf/Hobbit Hybrid

3. Pediatric Eye Infection (parents hide your children)

4. Blood-smeared Zombie*

* Smearing of blood may cause eye irritation. See costume option #3.

First Halloween

Emmett celebrated his first Halloween but unfortunately displayed an early aversion to spicy food. Let's just say he was underwhelmed by the chili pepper costume his dad picked up a few months ago.

He did, however, ultimately embrace October 31 and all its scariness by laughing in the face of fear at Dr. Cousin Rod's haunted house. Being in Gramma's protective care obviously helps.