Hot Dog!!!

As October approaches, our house is consumed with talks of Halloween, costumes, decorations, scary masks and CANDY! You would not know Rafe's birthday is in exactly one week from today. All he wants to talk about is Halloween. It is by far his favorite holiday. We read Halloween books and listen to Halloween music year round (not to mention playing dress-up). Since we have been talking about Halloween so much Rafe is ready to start decorating the house. I told him we were going to celebrate his birthday first and then we would move on to Halloween. Yesterday morning we were eating breakfast and I said, "RAFE, your birthday is in 8 more days!" He said, "Then we can get out our Halloween decorations!!" How sad is that??!! With all that being said, Buck is NOT exempt from dressing up! While Rafe was at school this morning I found a wonderful Halloween costume for him to wear. It is a Hot Dog! We call our Grandaddy Hot Dog, so I thought this was perfect! Of course as soon as Rafe got home from school we had to put the costume on poor Buck. When Buck saw me getting it out of the bag he started running from us. Luckily for him it does not go over his head, but he still pouted the WHOLE time he was wearing it. Rafe has never been so excited. He wants me to leave it on him until Halloween!! Now that Rafe is taking his nap I have released Buck from this torture. We will give him a break for at least one more week and then he will probably be in this costume every day until October 31 ...... HOT DOG!!!