Halloween

In the weeks leading up to Halloween, I became increasingly more nervous that Lincoln was going to refuse to wear his costume and instead of a super awesome astronaut, we were going to have a super awesome kid in shorts and a t-shirt. We did several dry runs the week of Halloween--including one at Zoo Boo, where he even got to practice trick or treating! I'd say in that entire week (Zoo Boo included), the costume was probably on his person a total of 6 minutes. He was not a fan.

The night before Halloween we went to a party at our neighbor's house, and imagine our surprise when he wore the costume almost the whole hour and a half we were there! Sure, we distracted him with hotdogs and cookies and candy (hey, it was a holiday....don't judge!), but still--we thought he'd be begging to get the costume off just like every other time. This boded well for Halloween itself!

Halloween was fantastic!! He wore the costume, no problem. Took him 2 houses to figure out that going to the door meant candy would be given to him. He couldn't get enough :) He is pretty addicted to dum dum suckers and kit kats (don't worry, he only gets two a day--one after lunch, one after dinner). The rationing does make him sad, but since mama and daddy are generously helping him eat through the bucket, the candy will be gone soon and hopefully he will forget about it till next year :)

On to the pictures!

(these are out of order, but I'm being too lazy to fix it right now. There is candy to eat, and I'm not one to let it go to waste...)

He loved that glo-bracelet.

Showing off his mad haul of candy.

Picking out the first treat!

Getting the hang of it!

Commander Lincoln in his shuttle, with helmet bucket.

Hello, I am the cutest thing ever. If you look at me too long, you will melt into a giant puddle. It's true.

Daddy and Lincoln with the finished pumpkin!

Helping to carve the pumpkin with mama.

What's in that thing??

Happy Halloween!

Although our plans for Lincoln to be a "log" for Halloween fell through (get it? Lincoln log? ahahahaha), he made an absolutely adorable giraffe. We spent the morning at a Halloween Festival at the YMCA where Lincoln got to play with some animals (this is beginning to be a weekend tradition...we have visited animals for 3 weeks in a row now. I wonder what he will think when all he sees next weekend is Wembley? I'd be disappointed, too) and check out all the other fabulous costumes.

Look!  A goat!

More goats!

Apparently, I only uploaded pictures with goats.  There were also ducks, chickens, and pot belly pigs.  In case you were wondering.

Weeee, I am having such a great time at the Halloween Festival!

We then came home to carve our pumpkin into a super scary...cat. Ok, not so scary, but definitely EASY, and when you wait until the day of Halloween to start carving, easy is the way to go. Lincoln was a big helper and fascinated by our pumpkin!

Lincoln learned to go down the stairs by himself.  He liked to demonstrate this over and over and over..... : )

Let me help.  I get it with my giant spoon here.

Lucas doing all the hard work while I just take pictures....

Wembley making sure the cat doesn't try and walk by his window.  He is very possessive.

SPOON!

Holding the pumpkin steady for mama.

That evening, we got him all dressed up and headed over for our one stop trick or treat at our good friend's house, Kari and Dan. We staged a few shots of Lincoln trick or treating, and then headed home to wait for trick or treaters. 2 hours and 4 trick or treaters later, we called it a night (well, Lincoln called it a night...we stayed up watching all the TV shows we missed during the week). Happy Halloween!

My friend Kari and her son Tommy (pumpkin), me and Lincoln (giraffe).

David (Spiderman) and Hanna (Batgirl) helping us stage a Halloween shot.

And just for fun....Lucas didn't dress up this year, despite my insistence, so I am posting these of his awesome costume from last year for your enjoyment.  If you can't tell, he was one of those blow-up dancing guys that you see outside car dealerships and gas stations.

Pretty authentic looking, eh?

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween!