Halloween 2004 was awesome for Rocco. He dressed up as an Oompa-Loompa and people just went crazy. Thanks to mom and grandma for designing my costume!

He even got to meet Mr. Willy Wonka himself at Nestle's annual Halloween parade. Rocco was the big little star of the show :)

His big moment came when we entered him at The Grove's costume party and out of 150 contestants, Rocco was picked as one of five winners!

He got a $100 Grove gift certificate (confiscated by mom) and a $10 gift certificate to Haagen Daazs (confiscated by dad), and a big bubble machine.

Way to go Roc-man!

Man, the madness never ends.

So there I was at work when I recieved an instant message from my friend Sandy. She asks me if I had anything to do with an eBay auction that featured a picture of Rocco.

To my surprise, I click on the link and sure enough there was Rocco dressed as the Oompa Loompa on an eBay auction. When I scrolled down, the auction had almost 40,000 hits!

Some clown decided to make up a story that he was attacked by Oompa Loompas, and just before they ran off he grabbed a black briefcase that one of the Oompa's was holding. So he put the black briefcase up on eBay for sale and somehow found a picture of Rocco and used it. I guess it's easy when you Google "Oompa Loompa" and Rocco's picture shows up :)

Anyway, click on the link above to see the auction. Scroll to the bottom to see the message I sent him and his reply.

Too funny!