Trick or Treat

Our Halloween festivities stretched over the course of a couple weeks and costumes as they seem to every year. We enjoyed our annual trip to the pumpkin patch, although this time we knew to go to the much less commercialized and drastically cheaper farm that was still complete with hayride to the pumpkins!

Jackson, our animal aficionado, begged us to take him to the zoo for "Boo at the Zoo". (He asks to go to the zoo at least once a day anyway, so it really was not a surprise... zoo + candy = two-year-old-bliss! I think was I was the only parent who caved though and let him eat candy for lunch.... I heard screams and cries all around from tots and parents of all sizes.... "I want candy." "After Lunch." "I want candy NOW!" "NOT UNTIL AFTER LUNCH!!!". And on it went all day.... Not for us though, Jack and Daddy (ok me too) happily chomped om chocolate and treats and enjoyed our day. And, the best part? Jackson wolfed down his extremely healthy dinner of baked fish and broccoli that night! Win-win!

This year Jackson informed me upon seeing the costumes that Old Navy had to offer (half off...) that he wanted to be a scary dragon.  So, a not so scary dragon he  was!  The day before Halloween we attended a birthday party complete with face painting and the face painter was amazing and painted a really cool dragon on his face.  I am disappointed that I didn't get a picture of dragon boy with dragon face, but it just wasn't meant to be I guess.

Trick or Treating was much more interesting this year.  The concept of "getting candy" was understood.  No problems with that one.  I think Jack's trick was to see how much he could quickly grab from each candy bowl when the unsuspecting candy-passer-outer put it in his reach.  Shouldn't they have learned by now? 

 Frank's trick - slaying the scary-candy-stealing dragon

All in all, a spooktacular Halloween!