Sam's First Halloween

Sam's first Halloween was a busy one! Sam was a bat with purple wings - very scary. The excitement started in the morning with a costume parade at daycare. All of the different rooms take turns parading around the center. For the babies in the infant room, wagons serve as parade floats. Ben was able to slip out of work for a while and join the parade. He said that in one of the rooms, a four or five-year-old boy approached Sam and told him, "you're cool!"

Sam was NOT loving his costume, mostly because it was tough for him to move around in. When we put it on at night, though, he seemed to be okay in it. Nana came over since Papa Jay was in L.A. for work and we ate pizza and handed out candy on our front porch. Sam was a trooper - he stayed out with us the whole night! Next year, he'll get to actually eat the candy!

We each had our own pumpkin. The one we got Sam at the pumpkin farm turned out to be completely impenetrable! There was no carving that sucker! So we improvised with a Sharpie.

That's one tired bat!