Halloween...A 3 Part Series

This is Nolan's second Halloween and we could not believe how into it he was this year. I had expected a lot of tears over scary costumes and decorations but he braved it all like a champ. He did have 3 Halloween's to ease into it & I think that helped.


Halloween: Take 1
On Tuesday we went to Parent Participation class where they had a costume parade. Nolan loved all the attention he got from his bee costume and was a great poser for all the pictures. He regularly checked to make sure his antenna were firmly in place and wings still on his back.





Halloween: Take 2
Our Mom's Group met up for the 2nd annual Howl-o-ween Hoopla at Montse's house before heading down to Farmer's Market.


Farmer's Market 2008


Farmer's Market 2007

The kids had a blast eating Montse's gourmet mini cupcakes and then running races in the living room on their new found sugar high.

Is it a bird? An Airplane? No, it's Super Urban.
Brody and Nolan look at each other in amazement as Superman Urban takes off at "On Your Mark".

Once we got to downtown, Nolan was ready to go! He well .. beelined ... through the massive crowd of costumed kids and parade of Yes on Prop 8 / No on Prop 8 demonstrators. Martin and I dressed as Bee Keepers and we could hear the chuckles from the crowd as first a little bumblebee zipped through the streets with a bee keeper close on his stinger. It was nice to get so many compliments on our theme costume and we even got our picture taken by the San Luis Obispo Parks & Rec. Dept.

We finally got him to stand still for the games.

Nolan throwing a ring on the sticks.

Nolan playing Pumpkin Bowling

Halloween: Take 3 ... The Real Deal

Nolan's 1st Pumpkin Carving Lesson. He was very helpful and added a decorative touch with crayons and highlighters.

We have a very awesome neighborhood and they usually have very creative themed group costumes. Once again, Steve & Melissa took the cake with Spencer as a Bumblebee, Loralai as a Butterfly, Mom as a Black Widow and Dad as the Orkin Man.

Here we are as the Bee Keepers and Bumblebee

Grandma and Grandpa Joyce joined in on the festivities and helped us pass out candy as we took Nolan out on his very 1st Trick or Treat run around the block.

Senorita Julietta Islas Martinez Maria Velasquez Jimenez Charita & Monkey Man Ted

Nolan Trick or Treating with our neighbors The Tin Man Dixon and The Courageous Lion Grayson. At one of their first houses, Dixon and Grayson politely knocked and when no one answered Nolan took one look at his friends and charged at the door with both fists knocking. He was going to get some candy if he had to break the door down to do it...that's my boy!

Nolan spent the whole time running at a full sprint in between houses and waving his arms like he was flying.

When we returned to the house we found my dad scaring small children by gnawing on his arm through the gorilla mask while he buddied up to the scary skeleton. My mom instructed the kids to make their way past the monsters to get the candy. You know, I kinda of dig that they're old school and not very P.C sometimes, it's refreshing.

After a hard day of pumpkin carving, bee flying and trick-or-treating, Nolan enjoyed his first piece of candy, Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, and some milk. All while watching his favorite movie, Nemo. Yes, my parents did ask several times if someone had taken over my body. Okay, so we're pretty strict on those things on a daily basis but I firmly believe that not giving a child candy on Halloween can be classified as a mild form of child abuse.