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pedal, pedal!

Owen and Richard have an agreement that Owen has to wear his helmet outside, but can ride in the garage without it. Since Owen hates his helmet, he only rides in the garage, and this weekend he really did a great job pedaling from one side to the other. I captured this pass- not his best one, but he's not thrilled about the camera, so I get what I get.

but he doesn't like halloween

Halloween turned out to be a tough holiday for Owen. We usually get friends together to carve pumpkins before Halloween, but we ran short on time, everyone seemed to be sick, and Owen is apparently afraid of carved pumpkins. Owen would not let us carve the pumpkins- he was OK with us scooping out one, but he screamed and cried when we got ready to carve a face. He painted on one, and we left the others "natural."

We have been trying for a month to convince Owen to put on his Halloween costume. Both Owen and Richard were going to be Elvis this year (actually, we were all 3 going to be Elvi, but we ran out of time and inspiration and energy). Last year we had an issue getting Owen into his monkey costume, but after forcing it on him through tears, he ended up loving it. I had assumed he'd outgrow that issue by this year. Instead, he has just grown bigger and stronger and more stubborn and WOULD NOT try on his blue jumpsuit (with a cape, gold details, and gold sunglasses- sideburns attached). On Halloween afternoon Richard gave a big effort- when Owen got home from day care, Richard was there, in his Elvis jumpsuit, with Elvis playing on TV. But it didn't work. Owen would not put on his costume.

So we went to the playground instead, and took a nice walk together and later Laurel came over to trick or treat at our house. She was a very cute butterfly, and became a flying monkey girl when she tried on Owen's costume from last year.

Maybe Owen's costume will still fit next year, or maybe Laurel will want to be a flying Elvis.