"Lets put a smile... on that face!"

So... those of you reading this blog know us very well.
And therefore you know how we love fancy dress.
Thus with Halloween around the corner we and being in a new place, we felt it was important to do things... well. Given our limited budget and timescale, I was determined to make Hayden be awesome at least if not ourselves. Yesterday he was invited to Locky's birthday party, which was Halloween themed. Canada... like the US... is a bit weird when it comes to Halloween.
What I mean by that is that people dress up as super heroes or faeries... or.. anything. More like New Year really. Although witches, ghouls and zombies are all aboot the place it seems that fancy dress is all a bit... well ... lame to be honest.
No gore. No... scaryness.
Hayden had wanted to be Joker for a while - it was my idea, but was only a suggestion to him after he saw The Dark Knight.
Probably shouldn't have let him watch The Dark Knight, I'm sure a ton of people out there think I'm steering him onto a murderous, violent lifestyle - what with all the lightsabre duals and pirate sword fights... and now I guess I've really gone and done it!
But hey, my philosophy on the matter is that he's intelligent enough to not become a 'complete' nutter.

Anyway.. he loved the film and thought Heath Ledger was a legend in it.. well I got that impression anyway :)

So he had the option of wearing his Clone Wars captain Rex outfit, or Vader and he was going to be Vader, but he heard that Conner was going to be Batman, so, in true Hayden style thought it'd be great to play the villain.
He therefore spent a full 6 hours.. in make up!.

He looked incredibly evil to be fair... just the way it should be at Halloween. I think he got into his role a bit too serious and started saying "Why so serious?" in a sinister voice.

At the party he was the only evil looking kid. He got respect - mostly from the adults, and then tried to scare Locky by stalking him into a corner - I explained that it was not very nice to scare Locky, but I'm afraid, bad father that I am, I was rather proud of his role play :)

I'm also glad he doesn't scare easily and I'm starting to think that the other parents around here think I'm an arse for letting him sword fight and choose villains like Darth Maul and The Joker as role models. I think it's cool ;), much better than Ned Flanders!

Bath time. This shot was taken before we tried to wash out his green hair.

Note - the nice clean water?

And this was taken after LOL.

He'll be reprising his role on Halloween for some Trick OR Treat - I may even take him on a bar crawl with me if Kath will let me :)