Halloween

We had a very eventful day yesterday for Halloween. At co-op in the morning, a team of firefighters came to talk with the kids about safety. One of them got all suited up in front of the kids and then crawled around the room so the

Calvin was brave to walk through the firetruck on his own…

We went to Ihop for some free "scary face pancakes." Pancakes with candy on top. Oh, man. They loved them. What was I thinking?

Then we went to our good neighborhood friends' house to play, eat dinner, and go trick or treating. Last year was sweet going around the neighborhood with just our little family, but this was so much better even. This little team on 4 was on a mission to go to each door yelling "trick or treat" before the door was even opened. I loved seeing them all so confident together! The boy in the football outfit is Sam….Cal's good, good buddy. And his sister Lauren (being as dog as she always pretends to be!) Jack calls his best friend. So sweet to have such good friends so close to us!

Luke was only a half step behind all the big kids. Dan and I would hold him, but he would squirm down to waddle with his little bucket up to each house. I had to dump his bucket out after each house because he enjoyed putting all his candy into each house's bucket…sweet buddy!