Halloween

Two pirates and uh, just me wearing black

This year, we took Adam Trick-or-Treating at the zoo on the Sunday before Halloween.  The place was crowded and not quite as family-friendly as we'd hoped.  It was basically a long, packed line of people trying to push from one candy dispensing zoo employee to the next.  

The express lane

Adam was a trooper waiting in line for us to get into the zoo.  He had a fun time seeing different people/kids in their costumes.  The highlights of the evening for him were seeing the waterfall in the tiger exhibit and getting to dance with ladies dressed as cows in the farmy section.

"Mommy?"

 Unfortunately, Adam cut both his fingers by sticking them in the giant pencil sharpener that the zoo was giving out with giant pencils.  Oops!  Neither of us expected him to stick his fingers in the sharpener, but since he has never seen on before, we should have recognized that it was not good to have it within reach.  Parent FAIL!

two bandages

To decorate at home, I bought several pumpkins to carve.  Adam picked out a white pumpkin to paint for Halloween.

Painting a scary pumpkin

Doc McStuffins, flame demon, ghost, toothy jack and spooky window

On Halloween night, we took Adam trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.  I was dressed as a ghost with a sheet over my head and so, Matt carried Aurora in her cute Halloween outfit.  Adam hit a few houses then wanted to go home and dig into the candy he got.  He had a little rubber mouse in his shoe that he didn't complain about and we didn't know was there until I was taking his shoes off.  Kids! 

Handsome knight

The highlight on that night for Adam was doing puzzles with Matt and passing out candy to trick-or-treaters.  He was really good at it, too.

Our lovely girl