I always love taking a look back at past events or holidays to compare pictures and see all the changes. Here are MJ's previous years Halloween costumes.
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| 2012 - Caption America, 2013 - Puppy, 2014 - Golfer |
Clearly Princess Beyonce has not yet arrived which in retrospect is a good thing because we've had so many Fall related and Halloween events on the calendar and were able to accomplish almost all of them. I love nothing more than being able to spread out holidays into multiple days so they aren't just a one and done kinda thing. I've never been big on Halloween before but having a little one definitely has changed that! And three years old has turned out to be the perfect age to really start getting into all these awesome holidays and events.
Boo At the Zoo
We continued our family tradition of going to Boo at the Zoo to trick-or-treat and see the animals. It was a bit windy and cold but we still had fun!
Trunk-or-Treat
We continued our tradition of attending Trunk-or-Treat at Dave's parents church and invited MJ's best friend Violet again. Since Tera and I work together and the church is literally two blocks away from our work we just have the kids get dressed there and go over, it works out well. Violet borrowed MJ's puppy costume and played the character very well, the bottom right picture is both kids pretending to be puppies. The bottom left picture is them showing off their tails.
Trunk-or-Treat starts with dinner in the gym then they have all sorts of fun games for the kids. This year MJ loved the donut eating contest, the pumpkin toss and pumpkin bowling. Thankfully the rain stopped earlier in the day and held off so we could enjoy trick or treating outside in the parking lot. It was cold but the kids had so much fun. After every single trunk MJ went up to he would show off what candy or treat he got by yelling at me, "Hey mom, look what i got!" It was so cute how excited he was every time.
Pumpkin Carving & Halloween Parade
So pumpkin carving was kind of a bust. Madden was much more interested in watching Charlie Browns The Great Pumpkin. He thought it was cool to open the pumpkin up but didn't want to touch the insides, don't blame him there though. He helped scrap it out for about a minute and that was about it but wanted to see it all lit up after it was done. There's always next year...
We almost didn't make it to the Halloween Parade, it was cold and rained all morning long. Luckily it started to clear up right beforehand and was just sprinkling when I decided about 15 minutes before it started to just take MJ on my own. So we hurried downtown, parked toward the end of the route and got there just it time for the start of the parade to go by where we were. Bonus being within a few blocks to the end of the route and a wet day was that there wasn't a ton of people where we sat so MJ made out like a bandit with candy. Everyone loved his costume and just threw handfuls of candy right in front of him. Thankfully someone at the beginning handed out extra treat bags because MJ filled up his pumpkin and half the extra bag! Obviously he had a blast and we had fun.
Trick-or-Treat
On Halloween we went over to Jordan and Steph's so the cousins could trick or treat together and they have a really great family friendly neighborhood. MJ absolutely loves hanging out with his cousins and could play all day everyday with them. He did not last long walking around the neighborhood though, he was really excited at the beginning but got too tired and was just as slow as an actual prehistoric dinosaur. He played his part well. His energy was restored once we got back to there house and he found out he could help hand out candy to kids.
Hope everyone else had an awesome and Happy Halloween!
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