Live Love Laugh: Halloween

Happy Birthday Brigham! Brigham was born on Halloween and he hates it. It makes me a little bit sad. I really love Halloween and wish that B did too. Hopefully as our family grows and children get older he will learn to at least tolerate it and participate for them. We shall see.

Fun side note: Someone once told me that if your due date is Halloween, that the conception

date was Valentines day. Apparently Brigham was born on his due date....

He also hates when I bring that up, but how could I resist?

This was Callum's first Halloween and it was so much fun! He is such a cute kid. Some family lent us a super cute little chubby chicken costume. I loved it so much! He looked so cute!

My sweet sister wanted to go Trick-or-Treating with us, so she came over and we went with Aunt Wendy and Olivia and her friend. (I am special and did not get any pictures of all the kids together) I pushed Callum for most of it, but then we decided that he should work for his candy so we brought him up the the door and he got to pick. It was really funny because sometimes he would choose right away and put the candy in the bag and other times he would hover his hand over the bowl for a while until I gave up and picked one for him. He also had a little bit of stranger danger and if someone he didn't know tried to hand him candy he wouldn't take it; he would be reaching out until they started to give him something and then he would suck his hand back to himself and give them a look that seemed to say "Umm... I don't know you, and I don't think I should take things from you." Very cute and very funny.

Trick or Treating is hard work!

We went for several hours. I had decided that we would just go as long as Olivia and her friend wanted to go, and they were having such a good time and it was so warm (I didn't really even need a jacket!) that we ended up staying out for a lot longer than expected. So when we finally got home, we took Callum to see John (Grandpa Forrest) because he was so excited to see Callum in his costume. While we were there, Claire and Duncan came to visit too and they all got to play together for a little while. It was such a fun day! I know Callum didn't really care all that much (only 10 months old), but I had fun! I love that little boy so so much!