Running Naked

Well, now that we are getting settled into the new house....so is Gavin. His new routine before bath very night is running around the house naked. I guess he likes the "freedom"....such a cute little behind!

Happy Halloween

We have been so excited for Halloween this year...it was extra special since we are in our new home and we actually had trick-or-treaters this year. We have been getting ready for Halloween all week by setting up our fall/halloween decorations, carving pumpkins (which you can't do without some wine), baking ghosts cookies, and reading some of our new halloween books at bedtime.

Real quick let me just tell you....when we moved into this house I could not believe all the Halloween decorations people had set-up on our street. Our neighbors across the street had an entire yard set-up as "Pirates of the Caribbean". He even had flaming pumpkins last night all up the driveway. I guess another neighbor did a raffle and gave away an Ipod to some trick-or-treaters. So, I guess one could say our street takes Halloween pretty serious....and I hear Christmas is even bigger! So, looks like Courtney is going to have to get real good at hanging lights if we are going to compete. lol

We had an awesome day that started out with dressing up as "Herky the Hawk". We headed to music class in the morning where we celebrated Halloween with some of our friends. Isaac (who we meet at swim class this summer) has become one of Gavin's buds. Isaac was a very cute dinosaur! The two did great the first part of class, but started to get cranky at the end, it was passed nap time!

Once 6:00 hit our street came alive!!! So, the thing to do in KC is for all the adults to "tailgate" in the driveway while the kids run around crazy trick-or-treating. Now, I did not know this until about 5:55pm when I noticed some of my neighbors (in costumes) sitting in lawn chairs in their driveway with their spooky Halloween music playing, fire-pits going, and drinks in hand!  It was crazy, however it was the perfect opportunity for Gavin and I to go around and meet some of our new neighbors. Since I could not decide what Gavin should be for Halloween I got him two costumes....so last night for trick-or-treating and for meeting the neighbors he was a "roar-some" dinosaur! I think his favorite part of the night was greeting the trick-or-treaters at our door....but he was a little unsure about some of the costumes. He also really enjoyed emptying the candy bowl and then filling it back up...over and over and over again. I heard our street had over 500 trick-or-treaters last night....so I guess you could say I under bought this year. However, next year we will be ready....in costume and all! Happy Halloween!