Pomerleau Family Blog: November 2013

Brandon was so excited for Halloween this year. He really "got" the concept of trick or treating, wearing costumes, decorating the house with Halloween decorations, and carving pumpkins. He also loved to ride his bike around our neighborhood and look at all of the other houses' elaborate Halloween decorations. Our neighborhood tends to go all out for the various holidays in terms of decorations. The neighbor next door had a large witch on her door that Brandon was both fascinated with and scared of. After a long deliberation, Brandon picked out his costume, a fire fighter chief which I ordered on Amazon. Brandon also picked out Olivia's costume, a lady bug, at Costco.

Brandon the fire fighter chief

All dressed up before his school's Halloween party

Our little lady bug

Carving pumpkins

Brandon did not like scooping out the pumpkin guts he thought it was icky

Helping to carve the pumpkin

Earlier in the month, we went to Lee Farms with the Mowery family and had a blast. Brandon got to go with his class at preschool back to Lee Farms on a field trip. He had so much fun and according to his teacher him and his good pal Andrew at school held hands and had a ton of fun together. They got to pick out a pumpkin, go down a slide, and go on a tractor ride. It was also Brandon's first ride on a school bus, which he loved.

Brandon's school had a all school Halloween Party on the Friday night before Halloween. The whole family went and it was a lot of fun meeting the other parents of the kids that Brandon goes to school with. They had huge Costco hot dogs for dinner (yummy), a cupcake freeze dance, face painting, and a magician. Brandon loved the magic show and sat there and watched it enthralled for 45 minutes with his good pal Gavin. Olivia tolerated the party well and took a cat nap during it.

Brandon in front of his school's pumpkin just before the party

Brandon and his good friend Gavin watching the Magic Show

Sweet Olivia at the Halloween Party

We had a Halloween/Football party the Saturday night before Halloween. He had Brooke, Taylor, and their kiddos, Beth, Rosie, and Thomas over and had pizza, snacks, and drinks while we first watched the Ducks play UCLA (they won!) and then the Beavers played Stanford (they unfortunately lost). We were a mixture of Ducks and Beavers fans so it was fun. We were going to pumpkin carve too but people got a little lazy and the Beaver game went right down to the wire and was super exciting to watch so we skipped that. It was really nice getting together with all of our friends.

All dressed up in her pink Oregon duck gear

Playing with her feet again! She loves them

The Halloween festivities continued that week when I took Brandon and Olivia to the Children's Museum two days before Halloween where they were having "A Baby's First Halloween" festivity. The kiddos got to wear their costumes and got to go on stage and show their costumes off for a costume contest. Olivia also got to wear her costume again the day before Halloween at our New Mom's Group Halloween Party. I got several cute pictures of Olivia in a pumpkin and with Brooke's baby girl Addie. We got to eat yummy food that everyone brought and have fun with our babies. Also several of the moms in the group and I went on a long walk afterwards around the YMCA.

Olivia and I at the Children's Museum

Little lady bug at the Children's Museum

We got a smile!

And another one!

In the pumpkin at the New Mom's group Halloween party

Little pumpkin

Then she tried to eat the pumpkin

Brooke and I with the girls

Addie and Olivia-both girls were about 3 1/2 months old

On actual Halloween, Brandon had school and his class had a Halloween party. They went trick or treating around local businesses in their costumes. He came home and we had dinner and then from about 6:00-7:00 we had about 400 Halloween trick or treaters come to our house. I had over 500 pieces of candy and it was gone in less than an hour. Our neighborhood though is the kind of neighborhood that people bus their kids to to get candy. Sean took Brandon out to begin trick or treating while I continued handing out the rest of the candy and then Olivia and I met up with him. Brandon did not last that long trick or treating but was excited to end the night by walking over to our good friend Rosie and Thomas' house. All in all, it was a very fun Halloween!