Halloween

Ok, so we're not as timely with the postings as I would like, but at least I didn't go three months between postings this time.

Last week was Halloween and we took Jack over to his friend's house for a little trick or treating and a lot of running and playing. He had two potential costumes and tt took a bit of coaxing, but he eventually opted for "Mater" from the Cars movie.

At his friend Zion's house, the kids (mostly boys) ran around for a bit, as boys tend to do, and then the dads took all of the kids trick or treating in the neighborhood. He was hesitant at first, but then soon learned that if he went up to the house, they gave him candy. Pretty soon he was running out ahead of me with his little green jack o' lantern dragging behind and yelling, "there's another one Daddy!" He also learned that if you just kept standing at the door amongst a crowd, the owner of the house would sometimes forget that they had given you candy and would give you another piece. We hit pretty much every house we passed with the exception of one where the owners had gone all out on the decorating. I'm talking smoke machines, giant spider webs, tombstones, and some sort of goblin booth at the front of the house. Jack stared at the house for at least minute and then said he wanted to just go to the next one.

In the end, he got tons of candy, which I think he has sort of forgotten about, and had a great time.