*Side note...Junior actually really wanted to be a trash man for Halloween and after I told him that I did not know how to make that happen, he had to choose between two other costumes we already had from my aunt. He was going to be spiderman up until the last minute when he decided that the SWAT team costume, to him, looked like Luke Skywalker. His best friend from school is really into Star Wars and teaches Junior all about it. His friend was going to be Yoda so therefore, Junior thought he could be Luke Skywalker. So this is what he really thinks he was for Halloween!
Saturday after a morning t-ball game we headed to the pumpkin patch and Nana joined us. We took pictures, rode a hayride, rode a train and bounced on a few bounce houses. Then went to my parents house to put Gaga down for a nap and then on our way home stopped by my company's "Family Day at the Park", same as we had done last year. We met up with one of my co-worker's, her husband and one of her kids. We played a few carnival type games, trick or treated in the suites upstairs, went through a bounce house obstacle course a few times, ran the bases on the field and watched fireworks at the end of the night. We were all exhausted by then! What a day!
Then on Sunday, Halloween, we enjoyed having our good friends, the H family, over for lunch and to watch a little football while all the kids played. For a while they all played baseball outside with the dad's and gave Mrs. H and I a chance to talk. It had been too long and was great to catch up! :) Later that night the same co-worker that met up with us at the ball park the night before, invited us to go trick or treating with her in her neighborhood. Junior was a pro saying "Trick or treat, please" and "thank you" at every house. He also was extremely good about asking when he was able to pick out his own treat if a certain piece had peanuts in it or not. I'm so proud of him! Gaga caught on quickly and you could just see her thinking, 'this sure is easy, all I have to do it go up to a house and they give me candy!' She never missed a beat wanting to walk all the way never wanting to be carried! I was able to get her to say "trick or treat" and "thank you" about 90% of the time and it sure was cute to hear! A couple of times her pumpkin was getting heavy and she was dragging it on the ground. We asked if we could take it from her to help her carry it and she replied "Noooo." Then we tried to at least take some of the candy out and put it in another bag to lighten her load and she replied "hey, hey, hey!" and was very worried she wouldn't see it again! Too cute!
All our pictures from the festivities are below!
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| Halloween 2010 |
