Halloween Fun

Rudy;s Halloween parade at school. I could barely get him to look at me.

Tonight for Halloween, we went to Rudy's friend's grandmother's house (who, just to confuse matters, was also Rudy's first grade teacher!) She had 4 or 5 families over. We had pizza and treats and then went trick or treating. We ended up kind of breaking up into smaller groups as we trick or treated and ours was the last to return. Then the kids played flashlight hide and go seek for a while. It was a fun night.

Rudy and Jaedyn being silly.

The kids (minus the youngest who was still getting dressed).

One of the first houses (with no response).

The headless horseman

Aliens and UFOs (with music and strobe lights).

Returning from a house.

A scary set-up. Rudy actually wouldn't go up and get candy because he was too scared of all the people in costumes (and one with a chainsaw).

Cool Halloween lights at the Phillips' house.

Carol finding Rudy hiding in the bushes.

Memorial Day Parade

Rudy's baseball league walked in our town's Memorial Day parade. Parents could walk along with the kids, so Paul and I joined in.  First we walked from our house to the starting area.

Only three members of the red team made it.

Hanging out before the parade.

Walking through town.

In the beginning Rudy was really into waving to all the people watching the parade.

Some of the spectators (in front of Paul and my dream house).

Nearing the end of the parade. Rudy was doing pretty well on the walk, but he'd had a long weekend so far. At the church ahead, if we made a left, our house is just 3 blocks away. So as we approached I asked him if he wanted to just go home, and he said yes. So we cut out of the parade a little early and headed home.

Halloween Part 2

Halloween itself started with school celebrations. N's class trick-or-treated to some of the offices at the school.
Here he's getting a treat from the nurse.

That treat was an eye patch that he had to put on right away.

 



The principal and one of the secretaries as Groucho and Harpo Marx.

After trick-or-treating his class had a party and then we went home. In the afternoon was Rudy's school parade.
Here he sits on Paul's shoulders while waiting.

Our quick glimpse of our ninja in his parade.

Then after dinner it was finally time for trick-or-treating. Rudy was just off-the-charts excited and couldn't wait for 6:00 to come.
And then of course I made them pose for some pictures.

Rudy photo bombing N's picture.

 

Already have a good amount of loot before even leaving our street.

 

Trick-or-treating in style.

 



The ninja running way ahead of us...

He really does make an adorable ninja.

A Not-So-Happy 4th (and a Happy Family Get-Together)

We started out our Fourth of July celebration as we have in past years with an early morning breakfast at Smithville Bakery. With N, we decided we couldn't go right to our parade seats, so we wandered around Smithville for about 45 minutes and then got our chairs and found a good spot. We relaxed and waited for the parade.

By next year, hopefully we will remember that the parade is loooooong. And the weather is usually pretty hot. And Rudy (and this year, N) is really not that interested in the parade after the first 20 minutes or so. So after an hour or more, we had two fried and exhausted and hot boys. Rudy was lying on the grass. N was yelling and screaming (and made us grateful for the fire engines and sirens that filled the end of the parade!)
Next year we will get up and go to breakfast and then go to a beach or pool, or home just to play, but we will NOT go to the parade.

A few days after the parade we were getting together to celebrate June birthdays with my family. The plan was to go to Bill and Renee's and they were going to put out Paige's pool for the kids that wanted to go in it. Well, it was a hot week and Renee's aunt and uncle graciously offered us the use of their yard (and in ground pool) for our get together, so everyone could cool off and enjoy the pool. The kids all had fun and had to be dragged and bribed to get out of the pool. N pushed his limits as usual and ended up falling in the pool (he was fine and immediately started yelling "not nice" at the pool). Rudy was a fish who jumped and swam the entire time. I forgot my camera but Renee had a family picture taken before we all left.