Halloween Fun!

The little one experienced his fourth halloween this year. I have a picture of him in his outfit posted further down (Davy Jones in the picture is the daughter of a great friend of mine). It was so cute... he was Thomas the Tank Engine, and I was to be James. (Just check out this link if you are not sure what I am talking about.) Of course - I didn't find out I was to be James until about 3 minutes before heading into town for that childhood favorite of free candy. So I was just mama for the evening. But according to him that was okay. (I wish I could put his voice in here somehow - it is so fun to listen to him talking.)

Now that he is getting older - his concept of how this all works is getting better. He knows that he needs to say "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you", however - we are still working on the part of when to say those words. Most often on Tuesday night it was "Trick or treat thank you." And at the houses where people were dressed up he just had to know who they were! It was the cutest thing... a guy all in black without a visible face and skeleton hands was not scary!! Just brought up questions like "what happened to your hands? Who are you? Where is your face??" I think the best things was that no one deliberately tried to scare us - you know jumping out and yelling "Boo!"

It was funny to see how much like me he is (or maybe scary is the better word to use here). We went to the houses of people I know, and for that matter that he knows also. So it wasn't just saying the words and then moving on... it was stopping to chat and catch up with people that I haven't seen for days, or weeks, or months. And most of the people he knew so it was his conversation and mine that had to be finished before moving on to the next place.

Here are the pictures that I have from his last three Halloweens. (Don't have an electronic format yet of his first year... If I manage to create on, I'll modify this post and add it in.)

2006


2005

2004