Halloween

 

This was a fun Halloween.  It was the first year that both Acadia and Rylan could participate and it was so much fun to watch!

 



 

The weekend before, we dressed the kids up and headed downtown Salem.  Acadia wanted to "fly" downtown, but Rylan stayed comfy in the Ergo.  We had to check out all the crazies (and there were a lot!) and Acadia wanted to go to the park.

 

 

Her favorite part was playing in the leaves...

About a month or so from Halloween, we began asking Acadia what she wanted to be and what she wanted Scott and me to be.  She decided on a butterfly and although she originally wanted to be a pink butterfly, we ended up being able to dress her up as a monarch butterfly.  As for Scott and me,  she somewhere thought of me being a lobster and Scott being a frog.  She never wavered.  We had to do something...

Rylan was a trooper.  He wasn't crazy about having something on his head, but he kept his hat on.  We were out for over an hour and he walked the whole time.  He went from house to house, walked up all the stairs, and held up his bucket.  While he obviously couldn't say "trick or treat", he tried to say something when the door was opened.  The funniest part was that after he got a piece of candy we had to take it out of his bucket. For some reason he had to keep it empty for the next house.

We kept trying to carry Rylan or put him in the stroller, but he wanted no part of it.  Poor guy fell fast asleep about 5 minutes after we got home.

Happy Halloween!