Happy Halloween!

And they're off! Blanden and Daddy head out on Blanden's very first trick-or-treating adventure.

The first stop: our next-door neighbor's house. ... Except, Blanden doesn't quite understand this whole thing yet, so they only went to three houses total.

However, Blanden was very intrigued by the various buckets of candy (ours to hand out and his), fascinated by all the kids coming to the door, and more than content to play with his treasure at home.

And, yes, he got to try a treat himself, his very first candy bar: M&Ms, which he selected.

Clearly, a big hit! As evidenced by the multiple-colored chocolate drool coming from his mouth and dripping onto his shirt. Still, I love that that one teeny, tiny package of M&Ms lasted all night. :) Happy Halloween! Time to start dreaming up what concoction of a costume we can ask Grammy to whip for next year ...

Trick or Treating at Dad's Work

On Friday morning, with the sun back out and the snow melting, Blanden and I took Daddy to work (as Ed hadn't yet put his snow tires on his car for the winter, not thinking he would need them already). Then we went back in the afternoon to show off Blanden's fabulous costume -- and to hand out some of his gold treasure in reverse trick-or-treat fashion (Blanden's a generous pirate).

As you can see, he attracted quite a crowd! (And this costume is a keeper! One we will treasure always.)

Aargh!

Since Blanden is a bit too young to select his own Halloween costume just yet, Daddy and I choose for him: a pirate, just for fun, courtesy of Grammy's seamstress skills extraordinaire. :) With a few long-distance measurements and some last-minute tweaking in person last month, Blanden ended up with one fantabulous Halloween get-up, which we've all been anxious to see him in.

Tonight Blanden got to dress up for music class. Alas, there was no group photo like there was last year (how can it already have been one year since our baby was a lil' rancher?!) as there is no more holding the "babies" either still for a photo -- or holding them too much at all.

We just had to show you the back of the coat, because it is so darn cute and perfectly tailored to Baby B. :)

Blanden loves playing the drums in class. He beats steadily right along with his teacher.

Blanden will be dressing up two more times before the holiday is over: once to visit Daddy's office on Friday -- complete with a bucket of (chocolate) gold coins to carry around from Daddy; after all, every pirate needs gold coins -- and once more on Halloween, of course, so there will likely be more photos to come of our little mate...

Happy Halloween!

Blanden went "reverse trick-or-treating" today -- he visited Dad at his office and handed out candy, instead of asking for candy, since he can't eat it yet (hence the bucket of treats pictured above). :)

Here are a few photos of him in his costume this afternoon in the backyard (and then crashed out on the couch after a big day -- all photos taken by Mom this time, as Dad was still at work). As you can see, Blanden was much more interested in watching Belle than he was in posing for a picture.

This is the only Halloween I can remember where it is in the mid-70s! And it figures -- the one time a nice warm shearling jacket is actually part of the costume, and it's too hot to wear it!