Our first trick or treating experience for this year was at the athlete museum on campus. Lucas was a maniac! We finished on the lower level, trick or treating and he wanted to turn around and do it again, until we told him that there was candy upstairs, and then he was willing to go upstairs, saying the whole time, "candy, candy, candy...", I gave Craig the look of, "what have we created". Needless to say Lucas had fun and learned about Halloween (complete strangers giving me candy!) all too quickly. They also had games and it was fun to be able to watch Lucas play them, because last year he didn't really know what was going on or how to play the games. We had his picture taken with the Nittany Lion, as you can see dad is holding him, as Lucas kept his eye on the lion.
Trick or treating at the museum was only the beginning, we also had Trunk-or-Treat with our church, so more candy for Lucas. At first he didn't want to go, but as soon as we told him we were going trick or treating he was more than willing, but disappointed when we got there and found out we were having dinner first, which was not what he wanted to do.
We didn't just trick or treat to celebrate Halloween, we also had our traditional Halloween meal (on the Sunday before Halloween). I just have to say after four years of baking our pumpkin carmel cheesecake, I have finally nailed it. The one we had on Sunday was hands down the best one I have ever made! I found that the key is the homemade gingersnaps, the store bought ones just don't cut it! The whole meal was yummy, our dinner in a pumpkin was really good, we added a few extra ingredients this year and cooked it for a longer period of time. The only issue were the rolls, that I have baked half a dozen times, but for some reason beyond me I cooked them at a higher temperature and burnt the bottoms, if I only knew what that one mistake would lead to I would have checked the recipe. Later that evening as I was cutting the black bottoms off the rolls I ended cutting my fingers. Stupid! Can I just tell you it has been a long time since I have really cut myself and boy did that hurt!
We also did some pumpkin carving, Lucas wanted a scary face! Lucas also opened up the package from Grandma, thanks Grandma and Grandpa! Lucas was thrilled, he loved the candy, of course, and we had a hard time getting him to pay attention to everything else that was in the bag.
Lucas was a shark this year, it was pretty cute. I taught him the theme music to "Jaws", so when you asked him what a shark said Lucas would do the theme music to "Jaws". While we were out trick or treating on Monday a lady looked at him and said, "are you a crocodile, no you're an alligator...." Lucas looked at her and said, "no, shark." Like duh lady. The lady didn't hear or more likely didn't understand what Lucas was saying. But for those of us that knew what Lucas was saying it was pretty funny!
Lucas once again out did all the older kids, he just kept going, till the end, he started and was off, we even had to slow him down a couple of times to stay with the group, Lucas was not interested in this at all he wanted candy and knew what he had to do to get!
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