Halloween!!

Time for a little Halloween recap! If you’ll remember, we had a really fun time on Halloween in 2011 and 2010. While this Halloween didn’t turn out exactly like I’d hoped, we still had a great time with beautiful fall weather. I knew things were going to be tough as Maxwell just hasn’t been himself the past few days. He’s cutting his 2 year molars and it’s just giving him “a bad case of the all overs!” Still, we tried to be festive so he went to school on Wednesday ready to fight back any ghosts in his Ghostbusters t-shirt…

Remember that tshirt from last year? Still adorable! When I picked him up that afternoon, even his teacher said he just wasn’t his usual happy self. I got him home and attempted to get him down for a nap. After a lot of rocking (and ignoring the other crying baby in the den), I finally got him to sleep for an hour. When he got up, I somehow convinced him to put on his red overalls but he wasn’t exactly happy…about anything. At that point, I had two crying babies…

I had to take a picture. It was one of those situations where you just have to laugh so you don’t cry! Thank goodness for strong arms!

Then I had to feed Spencer and this is what Maxwell was melting down to…

Oh man. Then I heard from Robert and he was stuck at work and not able to get home in time for the parade. Oh man again. I was on the verge of tears but, luckily, I had decided to be SuperMom for Halloween so I put on my invisible cape and got these boys packed up and out the door. I even got Maxwell to sort of smile for a few pictures…

He did think his official name badge that I made for him was pretty cool!

With Spencer all snuggled up in the sling and Maxwell in the stroller, we got down to the parade just in time to see all the floats…and get pelted with candy and mardi gras beads! Thanks so much to Sherry for helping us find a space right up front!

Maxwell’s favorite part of the parade? The fire truck at the end of course!!

He was so in awe that he covered his open mouth the whole time it drove by! I think he just looooved seeing such a giant fire truck in action!

After the parade we were making our way over to a friend’s house and stopped to run around the football field for a bit where Maxwell entertained a farmer and a cheerleader…

and we then took a slight detour to the playground for just a bit.

Spencer was enjoying it all just snug as a bug tiger in the sling!

We eventually got to our friend’s house where they had a great set-up to hang out before trick-or-treating. Maxwell played with this awesome water-squirting fire truck pretty much the entire time and was in heaven!

We did make an attempt for a dinner break (and you’ll see here that Robert was finally able to join us!) but all Maxwell was interested in eating was his cookie! No surprise there!

We did head out for a little trick-or-treating but, by this point, Spencer was needing to go home and eat and it was getting pretty cold. We went to the house of one of Robert’s former co-workers to trick-or-treat and let him meet Spencer. He snapped this pic of us – Maxwell was definitely not in any mood to have his picture taken at this point!

After that we made our way home through the super crowded and super festive streets of Crestline! While not the perfect Halloween, I think my little Fireman ended up having a great time! After all, he got to see a firetruck, play with a firetruck and eat a cookie! It doesn’t get much better than that for him! As for me, I learned that a 2 year old cutting his molars is WAY scarier than any ghost or goblin!! 🙂

Hope you all had a happy Halloween and have a great weekend!