Our annual Halloween Dinner!

For Halloween I made Lucas a festive tie to wear to church, he looked very handsome and very festive! I was pretty proud, the tie turned out better than I had expected (which was relief since it took me several hours to make the day before).

We also had our annual Halloween Dinner! Which is dinner in a pumpkin and of course our pumpkin caramel cheesecake, which was excellent! This was Lucas first dinner in a pumpkin and he thoroughly enjoyed it! We also had our new neighbors, the Van O's over for dinner.

Trick or Treating Week

This Halloween Lucas was a Monkey, a very cute monkey!!! There was so much going on throughout the week that I figured I would take a vantage of these opportunities and took my monkey all around town! At the beginning of the week we went to a grocery store, where they had games set up throughout the store. For Lucas being so small he did pretty well at the games. He put the rings around the witches hat and put the Halloween eraser in the bucket.

The next day we went trick or treating at the Athletic Museum on campus. Throughout the museum there were both athletes with treats! At first Lucas struggled with the concept of trick or treating. He wanted to eat the treat right away, and kept trying to reach into his bucket and pull the candy out, but by the end (after I had opened a sucker for him) he was happily putting treats in his bucket. They also had games, which Lucas didn't really get care about, but we attempted. We had a picture taken by the mascot, as you can see Lucas was not sure about this!

The Athletic Museum was a good practice round for the really deal, which came a couple of days later when Lucas went trick treating around the neighborhood. Lucas loved this! He took advantage of being so cute. When he was told he could pick two treats, Lucas would stick his hand in and come out with five, people thought this was so cute! Lucas enjoyed this so much he even outlasted the older kids we were with, they got tired and cold and were ready to head home, but not Lucas he kept going and going. I was amazed; he walked the majority of the time. He was such a trooper!

Last but not least, the following day we took Lucas to the ward's trunk or treat at the church. Lucas was really excited to going trunk or treating, by now he was a pro! He got to the point where he didn't want to be handed a treat, he wanted to pick out his own treat (or with Lucas it was treats)! It was a crazy week with lots of trick or treating, but Lucas had a blast!

Gettysburg

About the second week of October, I left Craig and Lucas at home and took a trip with some women in the ward to Gettysburg. We were lucky enough to have our own personal tour guide, who was very knowledgeable about the Civil War and Gettysburg. This was very fascinating to visit such a huge part of history. To hear the different stories and experiences that occurred during this battle.

Asleep!

This happened a week or two ago. Lucas didn't take a nap during the day and as I was holding him later that day he kept falling asleep, and I would gently shake him awake. I set him on the floor to play and I looked over and there he is curled up with his knees under him on the kitchen floor trying to sleep. It was about 5 o'clock and I did not want him sleeping, so I turned on some tv and gave him his sippy cup, thinking that will deter him trying to sleep. I started making dinner, and realized that he had been really quiet, and that is when I found him curled up with his knees under him, sippy cup in hand, asleep on the floor in front of the tv. I don't know how long he was there, it couldn't have been more than 30 minutes. If you know my child at all, you know this is not like him at all. He doesn't fall asleep till I set him in his crib at night, during nap time, and occasionally in the car, but he doesn't just randomly plot himself on the floor and try to voluntarily go to sleep.

Another First!

The first weekend of October Craig came home with a head cold. A week later it was passed on to Lucas. Eventually I also received it. For over a week now, Lucas has been ornery, clingy, whinny, has had a runny nose, the gooey eyes came back, and a cough. Yesterday morning I went and got Lucas out of bed, brought him into my bed to lay down next to me, he screamed bloody murder and would not lay down. Finally, the light went on and it occurred to me that this might not be just a cold. Long story short, we went to the doctor, Lucas was diagnosed with his first ear infection, in his right ear. He is now on an antibiotic and Tylenol! He is still whinny and clingy, but hopefully the end is near.

Lost Count!

I have lost count of how many teeth Lucas has, but I think this is number 12. Lucas now has his lower left cuspid, yeah! It has been right under the skin for awhile now and seemed to take forever to break through.

Apple Festival!

Went went to the annual Apple Festival this past Saturday! The weather was way better than last year! Nice and Sunny! We took a wagon ride out to the pumpkin patch (10 acres) and picked out a pumpkin for our traditional dinner in a pumpkin. I personally think Craig dreads this part, because I am so picky about the pumpkin and it takes me forever to decide. Craig kept and eye on Lucas, who was wandering around the pumpkin patch playing in the dirt and picking up these green ball things, trying to put them in his mouth, while I found the perfect pumpkin. Then we went and found the rabbits, which are usually at this event. Lucas was super excited about this. He wandered around attempting to pick up the rabbits. He was so eager to touch them. Fortunately, Craig was there to supervise.