A Late Halloween Post

Halloween snuck up on me...

and in a last minute scramble, this is what we came up with.

Jake was so cute, and got a ton of compliments at the ward party.

He also proved to me that he is a true boy and innately knows what a gun is and how to shoot it.

Leading up to Halloween, we enjoyed the cooler weather here and took in not one, but two, pumpkin patches!

The three little pumpkins are from Vertuccio Farms in QC. Jake loved reaching in the box to pull them out... he wouldn't stop! haha. So we let him have three, and I let him paint one every now and again.

The bigger one is the pumpkin that came with our entrance fee at Mother Nature's Farm.

It has stickers on it.

Here is the little monkey riding in style at Vertuccio's

but he really spent most of his time walking.

This picture pretty much sums up the entire corn maze from my perspective.

For journaling purposes: Our costume choice was a pain in the booty! Jake loves Elmo. He is completely obsessed. I can't even describe fully the level of obsession, but I can try. Everything red is Elmo. Every TV or computer screen is also Elmo. At home, or Walmart, or whatever. A month ago when he still wasn't talking much there were two constants: mamamamama (that's me, or Cam, he doesn't care) or Mo Mo (that's Elmo). So, (getting back to the point here) naturally, the first costume choice I can think of that suits Jake is... Elmo. WRONG. The kid refused to wear anything on his head and certainly not a large mouth and eyes. And after going through several other options: a monkey (hood thing) a pirate (save for later) super hero (no concept of..) a robot (too late in the game) a devil (fitting, yet not as easily located at one would think!) After several stops at several party/halloween stores and Goodwills, we decided on the cops and criminals theme. Only to find out it would take us two more stops to locate the police costume that the first store was out of and then 2 more stops at toy stores to fully stock his belt. Next year, I think Jake will be going as an almost 3 year old. That should be easy.

One more: Trick or treating for the first time. This year our ward did "blanket trick or treating" in the gym. At first Jake was so confused. When we started and someone gave him candy he wanted it opened so he could eat it. I tried to show him how to put the candy in his police car (it's an Easter Basket), but he clinched on to those first few pieces very tightly. After about a quarter of the room he caught on to the concept. Everyone was going to give him candy! He picked up his pace and very boldly walked up to each person with his hand extended. It was a very cute first trick or treating experience.