Halloween Fun!

After a VERY long week with excited 7 and 8 year olds, Halloween was finally here on Friday. I never thought I'd make it to the end of the week! It's tough having Halloween on a Friday for the simple fact that all week the kids are anticipating it. At the same time, it's nice to be able to have a whole weekend to let the excitement wear off after all the trick-or-treating. Hopefully they'll be nice and mellow by Monday since I have my first observation of the year with my principal. Anyhow, we had a very fun day at school. We even had a visit from a little pumpkin! My mom was nice enough to bring Caleb to school in his costume so that he could see my kids and march in the parade with them. By the end, he was one tired baby...he fell asleep in Grandma's arms before they even made it back to the car! On a side note, the wonderful teacher holding the baby was partially dressed as a red crayon (I added the rest of the costume later).

When I got home, I was so excited to see all the kids in the neighborhood coming out to trick-or-treat. In our townhouse, we had only a handful of trick-or-treators. It was great to finally have kids to hand candy out to! It was also nice to finally meet some of the neighbors we've seen out and about over the past few months since we moved in. Tyler and I have been meaning to stop by and introduce ourselves for awhile, but time just slipped away from us this summer. I decided that before the weather was so cold that nobody would be out, we'd finally go meet these residents of Lake Road. Having a kid to bring around for trick-or-treating gave us the perfect chance to do this. I, however, felt like it was silly to go knock on doors and get candy for a 7 month old. Instead, I decided to make little treat plates for the neighbors and deliver them with our little pumpkin!After about a half hour of going door to door we had a very tired boy who'd had enough of his first trick-or-treating experience. It was great to finally meet all of our neighbors though and we can't wait for the next Halloween when Caleb will hopefully be a little more excited about the entire experience!