Last year, for Halloween, Cael was Max from Where the Wild Things Are. This year, I decided to stick with the children’s book theme and go with one of his Daddy’s favorites from childhood. Now, if you look back at the Curious George stories, he is mostly a naked little monkey (with the notable distinction of being tail-less). He occasionally sports an outfit that is specific to the role he is playing in a certain story, but there is no characteristic Curious George clothing. But, I was afraid that if I made him just a naked little monkey everybody would say, "Oh, what a cute monkey" and not "It’s Curious George!" I think that the company that owns the license to Curious George has this same problem, as you always see Curious George stuffed animals and what-not with a little red t-shirt or baseball cap with that famous Curious George script. Anyway, I decided to dress my monkey in some red overalls with a "CG" on the front. Cael wore this to our church’s Harvest Party a few weeks ago. He looked adorable when he was standing up…..but every time he sat down all the little snaps between his legs popped open. Yeah…so, red corduroy is not stretchy like brown fleece and those overalls, which I had attached to the monkey body of the costume made it a wee bit small upon the sitting. So, for Halloween, I cut off the overalls and reverted back to the naked little monkey look. But, he was Curious George nonetheless…and his Daddy even sported the too-small yellow hat I made to be George’s friend, "the Man in the yellow hat" and we had a good time delivering some of Abby’s pumpkin chocolate chip muffins to our neighbors. Here are some pics of our little George (with and without the overalls)…unfortunately, the ones from the other night didn’t turn out so well.
I did leave space for him to breathe….he’s just looking down here to show off his monkey face.
And the naked pics….
Cael desperately signing "please"…..He was ready for one of those muffins we’d been handing out all night.
