Last year, the company I work for organized a Halloween party at the office for employees and their families. It was a total blast, everyone really enjoyed it, and folks were hoping we would have another such party this year. And we’re doing it! And this year we can bring San’kin! Except… he needs a costume… A Halloween store has just opened up literally across the street from our place, and we went to check it out. While they did have a number of costumes for little kids, we were disappointed by the selection: it was rather small, quality of costumes was poor, prices high, and return policy draconian (i.e. cannot return anything for any reason). Fortunately, one of us realized that Halloween merchandize is actually carried by stores like WalMart and Target. Last night we dropped by our local Target and, while they didn’t have a great selection, we were able to find couple decent looking costumes for our little treasure.
This evening we tried the smaller of the two costumes that we bought, the Monkey costume, which consists of a cute hat, little body piece, and feet. The picture on the packaging depicts a baby dressed completely in a brown outfit, but the costume does not includes pants of shirt. Luckily, we do have brown fleece pants of exactly the right color: a gift from friends. So now all we have to do is find a matching brown shirt. But even without that it should be OK. San’kin looked absolutely adorable in his new monkey outfit! We didn’t even bother trying the larger cow costume, but I’m sure Alexander would have looked awesome in that as well! He actually stayed in the monkey costume for some time, playing with the hat and the feet. We can’t wait for the Halloween party, it should be fun, and we hope to get some nice photos of the Cutest Monkey in town.