Trick or Treat

Logan was going to be the Rhino Ranger for Halloween, but I purchased the wrong size costume, so his Pepe gave him an Iron Man, muscle costume.  He was very excited to be Iron Man.  The mask was a bit uncomfortable for him so "Steve" painted Logan's face to look like Iron Man.  He did a wonderful job.

 

Castle was a skeleton.  He chose that costume as far as anyone needs to know.  I would like to say he was excited for Halloween, but  I don't think he was aware of what was going on.  He spent most of his time relaxing in the stroller.  

We went treating with the neighbors.  Our culdesac was left empty so we had Kim pass out our candy.  It was our attempt to avoid as much vandalism as possible. 

Logan, Colton, Mia and Meghan

A few blocks away from your house a family does a haunted house every year.  It really is pretty cool.  He converts his two car garage into a small fright zone and it is a huge hit.  I took our crew through and they all enjoyed it.  This is a picture of them in front of one the displays in his front yard. 

Mia, Logan, Lauren, Ella and Meghan

By the end of the evening Castle had gathered three pieces of candy on his own and was ready to go home.  Logan was complaining "I can't carry one more piece!  I have no more room.".  I think this year Logan caught on to what was happening.  He knocks on the doors of strangers and they give him candy.  He was not shy and let them  know when he was giving him nut candy and tried to get them to take it back and give him something he could eat.  It was hilarious.  

Logan's First Jack-O-Latern

Logan helped his Papa and Pepe plant a garden at the beginning of the summer.  One of the things that were planted was pumpkin seeds.  The pumpkin vines produced five pumpkins.  One was Logan's.  His Pepe brought over the pumpkin so Logan could carve it.  Typically Logan chooses a stencil and "Steve" carves the pumpkin.  This year was Logans first year carving his own Jack-O-Lantern.  He was very excited.  He started with gutting the thing. 

This picture is an illusion, he HATED the feeling of the pumpkin guts. 

After an hour of sawing on the pumpkin the end result was a cat.  Doesn't it look exactly like a cat?

Logan did a happy, "Thank you for letting me carve my own Jack-O-Latern." song and dance. 

After the carving event we went outside to display the work of art and discovered it was a beautiful night.  "Steve" took  the opportunity to rake some leaves.  Logan ran through them, and "Steve" raked them again.  It went on like that for a while, but they were having fun.  The video is pretty dark, but you don't have to watch it. 

Halloween Party

Logan had his first Halloween party on Saturday the 25th. He was very excited to have costume clad friends come over to his house.

The party started off with the oldie but goodie, eyeballs in guts game. The kids enjoyed reaching into the spaghetti in search of rubber eyeballs and shrunken skulls. The kids then moved on to a candy corn game, I won't bore you with the details. They them decorated sugar cookies, most of the kids ate the cookies "without decorations", children after my heart. Next was the ghost pinata and finally the monster under the tramp.

Near the end of the party Castle found the guts and was entertained the rest of the evening.

All and all I think the party was a success. It seemed all of the kids had fun and went away with a bunch of little party favors their parents will be finding in their cars for weeks to come.
I have to confess, I enjoyed the planning and decorating, after all Halloween is the best holiday. Logan had many people help him prepare for his party. Grandma Shar, Grandpa Danny, Kim and Dena all helped with the preparation and execution. At the party James B. enthusiastically agreed to be the monster under the tramp and he did a phenomenal job. I only wish we were able to capture a picture of him. But I do have a picture of the decorated tramp. Grandma and Grandpa brought cupcakes and several decorations to help create a festive environment. Kim provided almost all of the party favors as well as the sugar cookies for the decorating table. Dena was dressed as a witch, her makeup was excellent. It was so well done that Castle was afraid of her for a little while.

Lanissa brought the ever needed vampire fangs and Jackie brought the dry ice for our spooky root beer.

I am trying out a slide show, you can see pictures from the party in the show to the right.