10/31/09

Isaac drawing on his first pumpkin.Isaac drawing on himself.

Us enjoying Isaac's first trick or treating Halloween.

Our little pirate.

Cheese!

Marching through the neighbors yard to get his first candy.

His first house, he even said "Trick Treat."

Looking at the lighted jack o lantern that daddy carved.

Us getting ready to go around the neighborhood.

Heather and I went to a few Halloween parties and even managed to get down to Freakfest on State Street. We went as Jack Skeleton and Sally from the movie "The Nightmare before Christmas." We got numerous comments on our costumes, at least from people old enough to have seen the movie.

The first party we went to had the characters from the book/movie "Where the wild things are."

Their costumes were pretty awesome. They won second prize at this party for best costume.

This lady was the Geico Money. She even had a Ipod with her playing the song. It was probably the most original costume I saw that night.

This is Heather's cousin Brian, he was a picnic and his wife Gina was an Ant.

Gender crossing Nintendo characters Peach and Mario.

Heather's friends from her bookclub.

What! When this guy walked in I had to do a double take. He IS Conan Obrian. All he had to do is change how he styled his hair. I laughed ever time I saw him that night. He won best costume.

The second party we went to was near downtown. These are the girls from Strawberry Shortcake. Lemon Meringue(), Blueberry Muffin(Carol Meyer), and Strawberry Shortcake(Becky Mehler). Carol made all these costumes. She is very talented.

Me and a drunk penguin (Mark Meyer)

The Meyers

The Stapletons

The Mehlers (he is Super Grover)

This is penguin guy with a Halo helmet on. It is hard to tell but the helmet says "Hello" on it in the picture.

Where was Isaac during this time? Hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa. Grandpa was a pig for Halloween and Isaac loved it.

A cow driving a car?

10/30/09
Isaac loves to sit in the drivers seat of my car and pretend to drive. Imagine my surprise when he grabbed my keys, put them into the ignition and actually started the car. Here he is pretending to drive in his cow costume.

One of Isaac's "special" pictures.

Heather made some pumpkin cookies for Halloween.

Here is the result of Isaac eating one of those cookies. He mostly just smeared the frosting all over his face and had a grand time doing it.

Mashed pumpkin cookie.

Look mom, I have frosting all over.

....And now I have it in my eyes and don't like it.

Zoo and Columbus Halloween

10/25/09
Henry Vilas Zoo was having a Halloween day where you could see the animals and collect candy at the same time. We though it fitting that Isaac was a lion for the event.

The lion ready to hunt for some candy.

Mommy and her lion cub walking to the zoo.

Just like the picture because of his ear sticking out of the costume.

Isaac got to touch his first snake. He liked it. Notice that the lady lets you touch the snake and then immediately give you hand sanitizer. That is some good planning.

The animal carousel ride. Isaac went on it a couple of times.

Much to Isaac's delight they had a train that went through a portion of the zoo.

Isaac watched the train more than the animals that your suppose to be looking at during the ride.

Some friends of ours from church. Their little girl Mya.

Their older girl was Minnie Mouse for Halloween.

Another round on the carousel, this time on an ostrich.

A huge porcupine eating a pumpkin.

A red panda, looks kinda like a raccoon.

Bucky Badger showed up. Isaac loves Bucky but was a little nervous to be sitting on his lap.

Isaac took his nap on the way out to Columbus for his first round of Trick or Treating. He wasn't quite awake yet when we began to collect candy. As you can see he is less than enthusiastic about walking around in a pumpkin costume.

I carried him to the first couple of houses. Here is bunny Grace leading the way.

This house had a motorized spider in the yard. Isaac was curious and wanted to touch it.

Isaac eating some of his candy. I think he ate the candy from the first five houses before he could get to the next house. We eventually had to tell him to stop eating it all or he would get a stomach ache.

The candy collection crew. Bunny Grace, Ninja turtle Sawyer, white ninja Logan, pumpkin Isaac, and Evan in a hot air balloon. Evan got the most responses as people thought that he was either from the movie "Up" or mimicking the fake news story about a kid trapped in a weather balloon.

Isaac doing a little dance in a big pile of leaves.

Doing the "pumpkin dance."

Too cute!

Jumping in more leaves.

Daddy giving Isaac a gummie "toe."