The Curious Incident of the Monkey in the Nighttime

Here's a couple of pictures from Kiernan's second Halloween. As many of you may remember, Kiernan's godfather Daniel is a costume artist. He takes it upon himself to create Kiernan's Halloween costumes, which is really quite cool. This year he created a Curious George costume for Kiernan.


I am to blame for the almost universal poor quality of these pictures. I have no excuse, except to say that I may have been distracted by the enormous yellow hat I had been wearing all day. This is a cute shot, but I have not fixed the eyes yet. I think I took this one right before we went out trick-or-treating. I like this shot because it shows the very cool monkey feet that Daniel made for the costume.

As was the case last year, Kiernan's companion for trick-or-treating was his friend Sam. It's hard to tell in this picture, but Sam was a train for Halloween. From what I understand he is pretty much obsessed with trains, so he went as Thomas the Tank Engine and his mother, Heather, went as an engineer. Why some people feel the need to dress up as part of a theme with their child is beyond me...but whatever.

The boys were a great trick-or-treating team. It was funny to contrast this year with last year, because this time they would just march right up to the door, knock, and say "Trick or Treat!" Kiernan would also do the "smell my feet" chant at some of the houses. I should note that his mother taught him that. I'm very proud of both of them.


I've been trying to avoid this, but I suppose I should include a picture of all three of us.

In case it's not clear from the photo, I am the Man in the Yellow Hat from the Curious George books, and Wendy is a tree. She figured she would spend a significant part of the time while Kiernan was in costume holding him, so she decided to be Momma Tree. I have to say, she makes a darn cute tree. My costume is another of Daniel's brilliant creations. It is hard to get a toddler to carry around props that enhance his costume, so Daniel made a walking prop for him...me! This worked like a charm. We went to school that morning wearing our costumes and the kids just went nuts when they saw us.

Incidentally, I should note that if it seems that Kiernan is less than his normal, ebullient self in these pictures, that is because he was coming down with what would become a pretty good cold. At the time we just thought he was tired from what had been a very full day, even before trick-or-treating. So if he looks a little blank in these pictures, that's why.

This last picture is of Kiernan eating a tortilla after trick-or-treating. I'm including it just because I think he looks so adorable in that costume. I'm also including it because during our walk around the neighborhood we ran into a lot of other trick-0r-treaters. One pair of women stopped us in a driveway, laughed, pointed at Kiernan and said, "Curious Jorge!" They also pointed at me and said some things that I didn't quite catch since basically the word "Jorge" is the extent of my knowledge of Spanish. It's possible they said the word "queso" when they pointed to me, but I can't be sure.

I felt it was fitting to post a picture of our Curious Jorge eating a tortilla on Halloween. This is, after all, Southern California.