This wasn’t the little girl’s first Halloween; she went trick-or-treating with me last year as well. But this year, she picked out her own costume, and (being a very smart little two-year-old) was able to involve herself in the day just that much more. I mean, she set the direction for our pumpkin:

…and even picked out her own costume:

She’s been into Winnie the Pooh lately. Though if you’ve been reading some of my recent other posts, you already knew as much.

(And yes, I drew and carved the pumpkin, by hand, without benefit of a stencil. Not that I really needed one; I was always a passable cartoonist, and I’ve seen the little “how to draw your very own Pooh Bear” feature at the end of the Dragonlet’s Sing Along Songs: Winnie the Pooh and Piglet Too! DVD dozens of times, so…it was pretty easy.)