There's No Place Like Home

We had Dorothy and the Lion as a dynamic duo for Halloween dress-up fun this year.  It all started when Maeve found a Dorothy dress I had gotten her a couple of years ago for her dress up crate.  She immediately wanted to make sure Dorothy's outfit was completed with sparkly red shoes and a basket with Toto.  She never once asked to do anything else.  She was on a mission.  I think it had something to do with the shoes.  Who wouldn't want their own pair of ruby slippers?

With this is mind, we stumbled upon a lion outfit that would fit Cam while out shopping one day.  It was furry and a little bit on the cool side so he agreed.  On the way home, while wearing the furry lion's mane, he admitted that he really wished he had a costume that had a total mask where no one could see his face. He also added that it would be awesome to be something scary.  

We got the best of both.  Sunday before Halloween, we did Trunk or Treat at Harmony.  Dorothy and Courageous Lion humored me with a small photo shoot of them in their costumes in the fall scenery.  It helped that I bribed them with the promise of candy!

Then, on the actual Halloween night, Dorothy had to be the lone Oz character as Mr. Bones, a scary, fully masked skeleton, replaced the lion.  Cam was thrilled!  We had dinner with the Meelers at their Nonna's house which was definitely a huge treat for all of us.  We trick-or-treated in the biggest neighborhood scene we had ever attempted (even for me and Tony).  There were tons of cars lining the streets, costumed characters walking from house to house, and lots of sugary goodness!  It felt slightly like a scene from the movies!

At the end of the night, we all agreed with Dorothy: "There's no place like home!"