eat your baby carrots

Garrett the Carrot

Halloween 2007

Completely stealing the show at the ward halloween party
Saturday, October 27

Living it up at the after-party photo shoot
Saturday, October 27


Gearing up to eat carrots for the first time
(because, come on, you know it's a fitting food choice)
Wednesday, October 31

And he likes them!


Our baby carrot with his baby carrot after a walk amongst the local trick-or-treaters
Wednesday, October 31

A Note on Trick-or-Treating in Brooklyn: It is awesome. Because there are more apartment buildings (with locked entrances) than there are houses, the merchants on the major shopping streets host the trick-or-treaters instead. (I'm told you can go trick-or-treating at homes, so long as they're decorated for the holiday, but it's hit and miss and it's much more fun anyway to trick-or-treat at the shops where everyone else is.) I took Garrett out in his costume this evening to see what it was like. Though nearly everyone who paid attention as we passed by couldn't get over how adorable Garrett was (because, come on, you know he's a winner), the pure genius of the carrot costume was sadly lost on most of them, who unfortunately assumed he was a pumpkin. Some people, though, were smart, and made comments like, "Oh my, look at the baby carrot! Isn't that the cutest thing you've ever seen?!" Yeah, those people are my friends. One old man, who was sitting out in front of a local bar smoking his evening cigar, was particularly impressed and stopped me for a bit of friendly banter. His buddy, who was watching us from inside, was also impressed, and came out bearing the baby carrot Garrett is holding in the last picture. I'm looking forward to next Halloween when Garrett's old enough to go out trick-or-treating because, seriously, they know how to do it here in Brooklyn.

Eat your baby carrots, everyone
(but not this one -- he's mine)
and have a
Happy Halloween!