Happy Halloween!

Ha! I bet you thought I was going to mention another holiday. Today, however, I am wishing you a belated happy Halloween.

This year, Hazel dressed up as a monkey, so I thought I'd better dress up as a banana. It's healthier than candy, anyway. Turner dressed up in our hand me down pumpkin costume.

We really had a blast. We started early, at a Halloween party at an assistant living facility in our neighborhood. Other kids from my school were there, and it was nice celebrating with people of all ages.

Next up was the annual Halloween bash at Dad's office. We were happy to have another opportunity for an early celebration. Hazel really loved that they had a bounce house to jump in and I was really happy that they had -- you guessed it -- candy and other yummy snacks.

We took the day off Friday, then Saturday headed to a neighborhood parade. We joined everyone in the school parking lot out our back gate, then marched in our costumes to the next door park. It was short but fun. At the park, there was coloring, a puppet show and fun on the playground.

Sunday we went to one of Dad's favorite restaurants for lunch. Our food was free since we dressed up in costumes. This time, I went as a duck. Hazel stuck to her monkey costume and she was happy to find one of her favorite things, a motorcycle, used as decoration at the restaurant.

Over the weekend, Dad helped us carve a jack-o-lantern and Mom roasted the seeds.

Monday was the grand finale. We started off trick-or-treating with Mom and did half our street while Dad stayed home so he could hand out candy and stick with Turner, who had already fallen asleep. We wrapped up the other half of the street with Dad. This is the first year we really enjoyed trick-or-treating, and along the way, we ate a bunch of candy.

The other fun thing we did this year is we decorated our new house for the holiday. We hung orange lights and spiderwebs on our magnificent trees, and had a bunch of pumpkins and a skeleton by the front door. We also had a spooky jack-o-lantern glowing in one of the upstairs front windows. Next year will be even bigger and better in this department. Stay tuned! 

As you can probably tell by our lack of posts this month, we've been really busy. We had a fun trip to the Austin zoo a couple of weekends ago and have been enjoying the mild weather at our playgrounds behind our house. We've gone almost every afternoon!

Turner's coming a long way too. For the past few weeks, we have been able to sit him up like a tripod. At first he could only balance for a few seconds, but now he can sit that way for a while and play with a toy. He's really been working on trying to crawl, and he's coming pretty close.

For our Halloween pics, click here.