Halloween
I feel like we started celebrating Halloween early this year. Now that Nolan recognizes pumpkins, ghosts and candy we have been pointing these things out for weeks and have been in true "Halloween spirit" for quite some time.
The weekend before Halloween we checked out Boo at the Zoo with our good friends the Warrens/Nolan's girlfriend Emma. We had an early dinner and then bundled the kids up in their costumes and hit up the zoo. I have to say that the zoo was a bit of a bust. The kids had a great time but the animals were all hiding that night. We saw a reindeer, flamingos, penguins, and a wolf. That's it. On the bright side, they had candy stations every now and then and a haunted mansion that the kids liked :)
Yet another picture of Nolan and Emma looking excited in their strollers.
"Where are the polar bears!?"
That Sunday we pulled our pumpkins inside to be carved. I wasn't sure how Nolan would react to this ritual since he is such a neat freak but he surprisingly loved reaching into the pumpkin and pulling out all of the "goop."
Halloween morning modeling his pumpkin shirt......
The weather on Halloween was horrible this year. Raining/misting and about 40 degrees. We weren't sure if we would leave the house with Nolan or just stay warm and pass out candy. So we had an early dinner, dressed up the little tiger, passed out candy for about half and hour and then decided we had to take him to a couple of houses this year. After a few tears and melt downs while layering him up like there was a blizzard outside we made it to four neighbor's homes.
"This Tootsie Roll Pop is really good!"
"Yum!!"
Cold, wet tiger. Despite the weather Nolan did a really good job. He walked to each house and carried his candy bucket the whole time. He even got the hang of the trick-or-treat portion. He would go up to the front door and stick his bucket out for candy. We would ask him, "Do you want to go to the next house and get some more candy?" and he would say, "yeah!"
Back home with all his loot.
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