Post Halloween Debriefing

I did it folks. I survived another Halloween. It's still hard to fathom that I'm on my second round of holidays already. Wasn't I just born?!?!

Thursday night, Mrs. Patty let us wear our Halloween costumes to ECFE class. Here's the lot of us. I'm the butterfly in the front. You'll recognize my homeboy Quinn in the rockin' astronaut costume to the right and Riley over at World According to Riley donned the ladybug getup you see front and center. We also had a Tigger, a belly dancer, a pirate (ahoy), a giraffe and a hobo.

(Speaking of "on my second round of holidays," I thought y'all would like to mosey down Memory Lane with me and see the picture of our ECFE class at Halloween one year ago. I'm the pumpkin, Quinn is the turtle, and Antonio (now a hobo) is the hot dog. We've all come a long way!!!)

Back to the present time...sometimes it can be very frustrating when parents want us to dress up in silly costumes.

My solution to that frustration is to simply remove the costume. See diagram below:

My mom and dad were very happy when I was more cooperative about the costume on the actual Halloween holiday. Here I am posing with Mr. Pumpkin.

After posing with Mr. P, I decided to flit about the front yard a bit since I was dressed as a butterfly. When in Rome...

After my fit of flitting finished, Mom and Dad took me to "downtown" South St. Paul for a Halloween gathering. We got to go trick or treating at the businesses on Marie Avenue. We also got to eat hot dogs. Yummy.

Quinn and I had a good time hanging out together. He was a really good boy and completely ignored the candy in his bucket. Mom and Dad should had me in a devil's costume the way I was acting. I dug into the bucket and came up with a sucker which I promptly stuck in my mouth, wrapper and all. Mom tried to take it away from me but since she hates to have conflict in public, she removed the wrapper and gave it back. Ha, she's such a softie!

On Saturday, Daddy left for Las Vegas. He's going to be gone for six days. Yuck. I don't like it when my daddy goes away. But Mom and I know this is our life, so we just suck it up and deal with it.

Since Daddy couldn't come along, that meant Mommy and I made road trip to Great Grandpa Noe's house all by ourselves. When we got there, we joined Great Aunt Judy, Grandma Jan and Grandpa Bob in some decorating festivities. Yes, we realize we were putting up Christmas decorations 55 days before Christmas, but Aunt Judy is leaving tomorrow to go to Florida for the winter so we all decided to get together to do the decorating then give her and Uncle David a nice sendoff.

I was a good helper with the decorations, handing tinsel to Mom and Aunt Judy.

But I was even better at eating grapes. I think I ate approximately 1.5 pounds over the course of the day. You should have seen my diaper on Sunday morning! Mom didn't get an official count, but she thinks there were probably 97 grape skins in there. Nasty!

An update on my dressing skills: I have not mastered the coat yet. (Note the hood in the front.)

That's all I've got for now peeps. Catch ya on the flip side.

Peace out-

Butterfly