October 30

The last couple weeks have been a whirlwind! We have done so many Halloween activities, I'll be glad when Nov. 1st gets here!

We went to the zoo for Zoo Boo on the 20th. They had all sorts of decorations and treats for the kids. Josh walked the entire zoo collecting candy and looking at the animals. He is still infatuated with Elephants - we spent about 20 minutes watching them, and he still didn't want to leave.

We have been to lots of fun playgroups. We've made Lollipop Ghosts, and decorated Pumpkin Muffins to look like Jack-o-Lanterns. The Ghosts were kleenex over a lollipop secured with a rubberband! How cute is that? The pumpkin muffins were delicious, but even better with the icing and candy corn decoration.

We also recycled baby food jars, and made them in to Ghosts and Jack-o-Lanterns. ModPodge is a wonderful thing!

We hosted a Halloween themed playgroup ourselves, too. We made reflective necklaces to wear on Halloween night while Trick-or-Treating. It was fun, and they turned out really cute.

The Saturday before Halloween we went to Great Grams to help pass out candy for their Trick or Treaters. While we were there, Aunt Joan met Chelsea for the first time.

This past weekend Josh helped to carve his first pumpkin! He normally doesn't like getting dirty, but he thought it was great "helping" to clean out the goo. We collected all of the seeds, and Scott roasted them in the oven. Surprisingly, Josh LOVED them! I'm not sure if he liked them because they were good, or because they came out of his pumpkin. Either way, he enjoyed it!

Last night we went to South Hills Village for the "Mall-o-ween" Trick-or-Treating with MoMo. There were hundreds of kids there. I'm not usually big on crowds, but we had a lot of fun. This was Joshua's first official Trick-or-Treat experience. Last year, he wasn't old enough to eat the candy, so we just took him to the grandparents homes, and that was that. He was a little wary at first, but once he realized what happened when he said "Treats, Please", he was all excited about it... but then again, that might have been the dozen tootsie rolls Scott had fed him. Either way, it was a lot of fun!