Chandler’s First Halloween - AKA Chandler’s first scam.

This was Chandler’s first Halloween and as you can see from the photo Chandler and I dressed up as a team. To be honest, Chandler didn’t really have much of a say in what his costume was. I already had the Winnie the Pooh outfit. So Chandler was kind of stuck with Tigger.

At first my wife didn’t think we were actually going to go trick-or-treating this year. I acted like she was crazy. “Of course we’re going out trick-or-treating!” I told her. But as we headed out to our first house and I walked up to their door, it slowly dawned on me how obvious it was that I was basically using my 2 month old child to scam candy from my neighbors.

“Trick-or-Treat! I have a cute baby…in a cute costume…can I have some candy now?”

I have to say, all the neighbors were great sports about it. They all thought Chandler was very cute, and some of them thought I was cute.

I almost gave one lady a heart attack. I think the order of events in her head were like this, “That kid is huge! Oh, it’s a man in a bear costume. There’s a head sticking out of his chest! Oh, it’s a baby. Oh…this is cute….Wait…why am I giving them candy? The baby isn’t going to eat the candy. That man is scamming me!”

By then I was at the next house.

I can’t wait for Chandler to be old enough to walk. Then I can dress up as an Organ Grinder and Chandler can be my monkey.