Halloween

(Playing a little catchup...) We enjoyed the rather balmy month of October.  Kale was very interested in the pumpkin patch (our garden) this year.  Each day we'd wander through the patch and check on our growing, round friends.  After a frost, we harvested them and let them hang out on the deck to "orange up" in the sunshine.

 Then came carving time (he wanted to carve one that wasn't so orange...).  We have the book "The Pumpkin Gospel" in which it relates cleaning out a pumpkin to how God cleans out our heart.  It talks of "scooping out the mushy gooshies like God cleans out our sin."  Kale talked of "mushy gooshies" several times while we cleaned.  Darn cute.

 Halloween night arrived and we had a little marathon runner on our hands.  I decided to DIY this year after seeing the idea in a Parent Magazine.  He wore my running bib and medal from the Chicago Marathon in 2003.

 Papa was a good sport and dressed up too.  And he was truly dressing up cause we all know Papa don't like to run!

 While out trick-or-treating, we stopped at a little firestation that was handing out treats and let the kids sit in the fire engines and ambulance.  Pretty cool!

Kale was a real trooper.  At each stop he climbed out of the car and grabbed his pumpkin and went up to the door.  I think he got the hang of it quickly!  Was a fun night for all of us.