Halloween!

Alex has been into airplanes, rockets, and space stuff ever since going to the Air and Space Museum a couple of months ago! He has talked about "being an astronaut" many times... so when he saw this costume, he was SO excited!! We were VERY careful though about what we said, because he thought the day that we bought it that he was going to fly us in a rocket to the moon on Halloween. Once we realized that he REALLY thought this costume meant he was an astronaut, we told him over and over again to remember it's for pretend in hopes to avoid dissappointment :) After talking about, reading about, and seeing some cartoons about Halloween, he began to understand the whole trick-or-treating and costumes aspects of Halloween and understood that this was just a costume :)



SO excited, ready for trick-or-treating!! He kept asking if it was "MY Halloween today??" (everything is "MINE" when you're two ;) )




We went trick-or-treating in a neighborhood near the church we've gone to the past couple of months, Alex LOVED it! And everyone thought he was so cute... he filled his entire pumpkin in 20 minutes of trick-or-treating!



He would tell us "it's mommy's turn" or "it's daddy's turn" to hold his hand and take him up to each house :)

After trick-or-treating, we headed to a Harvest Festival at Burke Church! Alex was a little overwhelmed with it at first - there were TONS of games, people, costumes, balloons, food, etc. everywhere! His quiet personality comes out when we get in these types of situations... he's just not quite sure what to do! After a couple of games he started to get the hang of it, warmed up to the crazy atmosphere, and enjoyed playing games and winning prizes :)

After heading home, Alex and Gary spent time checking out all the treats!! Here it is, all sorted out! My favorite Gary comment of the night, said to me (not Alex) "There's 8 kit-kats... so we each get 4!" :) I think he enjoys the candy more than Alex!!

And in backwards order (because oops! I put these pics up first):

We carved pumpkins last week before Halloween! Alex loved it! He has been so into all of the Halloween festivities this year - it makes me that much more excited for the holidays!! He was a little tentative reaching into the pumpkin at first, but once he started, he was ALL about pulling out the slime and seeds!

Alex requested a "goofy" face and kept giggling and saying "oh goodness... that's so silly!" He loves those two sayings right now :) Then he has a little fake giggle that usually follows, too cute!!

Final product! What a fun night!