October exploits continued

Liam’s preschool had a Halloween party and right before pick up time they did a little parade for us.  It was super cute. 

There’s my little Iron Man

Right before Halloween we finally made it to Pumpkinland at Vinyard Gardens with our playgroup.  It’s such a cute place for the preschool age kids. 

All the kids before we got lost in the maze.

In the mazeThe gourd tunnelWhy are these cutouts always so cute?

STILL couldn’t get Liam to stick his head through this jack o lantern to take  a picture

This is the three little pig’s house of straw. 

There’s even a pot inside to catch the wolf!

There’s a fun playground at the end.

Liam thought these giant pumpkins were pretty cool.  This one was the perfect chair for him.

There was a “light alley” too, but I didn’t get any pictures of it. 

The Sunday before Halloween I realized that we still hadn’t carved our pumpkins so we got to work.  Liam and Daddy did a simple design while Emily did a really intricate design.  Jason Jr’s design was pretty easy too.  In fact, Emily started with Liam and Daddy and Jason didn’t start his until about an hour after the rest of us because he was watching a movie and he still finished before Emily.  She got a little frustrated a few times, but was very proud of her hard work in the end. 

Can you guess which one is Emily’s?

Halloween was perfect this year!  The weather was gorgeous and Liam was a trick or treating machine.  He didn’t want to quit.  We started out early and headed to the house in town that gives a dozen krispy kreme donuts to each person.  You have to get there early and stand in line, but it is worth it for the look on their faces!  Above is Liam eating a donut—he just couldn’t wait. 

Liam and Lauren—we went with our neighbors at the beginning.

After the donut house we headed to the church for a little trunk or treat, but we were a bit late and missed most of the action.  Then we went home and started around the block.  I thought Liam would be done after that, but he wanted to keep going so we dumped out his bucket at home and went back out to hit more houses.  Even after hours of trick or treating I had to lay down the law and make him go home.  He had quite a haul of candy and he loved every minute of it.  I’m glad it was such good weather for his first year when he really got it and was old enough to enjoy it.  Towards the end I could tell he was getting tired even though he didn’t want to go home because he would knock on the door or ring the bell and then he’d sit on the step while he waited for the door to be answered.  It was really cute, but I didn’t have my camera (of course).

The costume.  He insisted on being Iron man, but the only one we could find was this black one.  I never saw the  movie with the black one so I’m not sure exactly who it is, but it was good enough for him and the only one we could find that was his size so I was fine with that and so was he. 

Whew! Hope you had a Happy Halloween too!