Halloween...finally:)

So, for the sake of my kiddo (and my own horrible memory), I am posting about Halloween. It might be a month late but I wanted to make sure that Cole knows (when he's older) that we celebrated it and that he was the cutest little dog in the world!! My mom came down to see us and we went trick or treating at The District (the shopping center next to Green Valley Ranch Casino). They had little booths set up that all the kids could go up to and say trick or treat and I'm happy to say that by the end of the night, Cole was a master at saying it:) We also stopped by quite a few of the stores to t.o.t as well. Everyone, of course thought Cole was adorable but I have to admit that my man stole the show! As you can see in the pictures, he went as a very pregnant lady (in honor of our impending babe)! He was incredibly unattractive and turned many heads. Dudes called him very brave and ladies mostly just laughed and pointed. Some people even stopped him and had him take pictures with their confused children! I was a clown, my mom was a cowgirl and Louisa was a fairy. We started t.o.ting at around 5pm and were done by almost 7...it was perfect! And so much better than wandering around our depressing neighborhood looking for a house that was handing out candy. I am quite disappointed in the down turn that our little neighborhood has taken over the years. I remember when I was a kid in this neighborhood and would come home with a TON of candy. Nowadays, it's pretty dark and gloomy and pretty much no one is walking around. But I am happy at how successful we were at The District. I also feel more comfortable about the kind of candy that they were handing out. Oh, I forgot to say that earlier that day, we went to a "kid" fair in the parking lot of Sunset Station to find a pumpkin. Cole and I had gone the day before but I didn't end up getting a pumpkin because we had too much fun. Cole got to pet some animals at a little petting zoo thingy and he rode on the swings (a mini version of the kind that spin around) and a choo choo train:) Cole was hilarious on the swings and the choo choo train! When he is SUPER excited about something, he almost shuts down completely. You can see a smile lingering behind his eyes but it's almost as if things are too awesome and he doesn't know how to handle it. He was also SO excited about the petting zoo. It was his first encounter with live goats, bunnies and chickens (he's seen ducks before, although he had never pet one). I explained to him that he couldn't chase them and that he needed to be nice and slow but he could pet them if he wanted. He was such a good boy. He pet EVERYTHING over and over (except for the chickens, they just ran away). He kept saying, "hi goats" over and over again and would walk up to them very slowly and pet them:) I think the bunnies were his favorite. He called them bunny...pause...rabbits:) They were sleeping in the sun and pretty much didn't move a muscle, even when you touched them. I actually would have thought they were dead if I hadn't seen their noses moving:) So anyway, we decided to go back the next day with Travis and my mom and got to do it all over again (minus the petting zoo, which they had taken down...bummer). Back to that night...Cole was thrilled with his candy but I gotta tell you, the kid is an anomaly. He is the only kid I have ever met that will take a single lick of a sucker or a bite of a mini candy bar and then tell me he's done. He does it with bowls of ice cream, popsicles and other savory treats. I definitely appreciate his restrain but I have no idea where it comes from:) Needless to say, he went through his candy pretty fast and really only ate about a 1/3 of it. Eventually, he stopped asking for it all together after we'd get home from work. So, that's the story of 2009 Halloween...enjoy the pics!