Last week at DDC (Doggy Day Care) we were told to bring our dogs dressed up for Halloween and that there would be a contest (yes, until January 1st or around then she is our only child, and we take her to daycare and have dress-up days...we'll see how long this lasts once Babe in Copperland arrives).  Well I LOVE a good contest, so of course felt like we had to participate.  At the same time I didn't want to have to buy a new costume (or heaven forbid make one) so I decided to go with last year's, a great pumpkin costume from Old Navy.  See Exhibit A below from last year:

The key problem to this plan was that in trying the costume on Copper the morning of the costume contest, I left her alone for 30 seconds and she chewed through the strap holding it to her body and would have probably eaten the whole costume had I not found her in time.  Honestly, I don't blame her too much because I had forgotten how much she had grown since last year and she looked sort of like a giant orange sausage, the thing was so small and tight on her this year.  So instead of being a cute pumpkin we had to settle for a (very) mediocre witch.  I can't even remember where we got this witch hat but I dug it out of her dog bin and we went with it.  See Exhibit(s) B below from Doggy Day Care:



Sad, I know.  We (I) clearly dropped the ball on this one.  If the picture evidence weren't enough, she came home with a report card that mentioned nothing about her costume or the contest.  I was embarassed for her!  Clearly she wasn't a winner--here were some of the other dogs that day:








Regardless, she didn't seem to let the defeat get her down that day as she played with her buddy Big Paws (not sure what his real name is) and her favorite DDC toy:



Cheers to more Adventures in Copperland!

PS.  The latest in pregnancy comments--I was at the Chik-Fil-A drive thru (gosh between this post and the last you probably think I am the least nutritious pregnant person ever) this week and the guy at the window took one look at me and said "congratulations."  I looked to my right and behind me to see who he might be talking to and realized it really was ME.  So I am now big enough to be visibly pregnant while sitting down at a drive-thru.  Fabulous.