Halloween Fun

We got to have a little fun this weekend because Jacob’s parents came for a short visit.  Josiah always loves playing with him and he soaks up being the center of attention.  On Saturday after they left, we headed to Micanopy with Grandma for their Fall Festival which turned out to be much bigger than we expected and we ran out of time to experience it in full, but we had a good time anyway.  Afterwards we enjoyed a very yummy dinner at Ruby Tuesday.  Unfortunately I have no pictures of those events.

For Halloween we went to our church’s Fall Family Festival with my mom and niece.  Josiah LOVES to play with Savannah, so we had our very own party in the car on the way – lots of laughs!  Both of them refused to don their cute costumes, a Lady Bug and a Puppy, but we went anyway.  Josiah, a boy who has barely ever even eaten candy, caught on quick to what this whole trick-or-treating was about.  He latched onto the first lollipop he got and stuck it in his mouth, wrapper and all.  I tried to show him to put it in his candy pail, but eventually just unwrapped it and let him have at it.  Nothing else in this world mattered anymore but that lollipop and I had to do his candy collecting for him.  When he finished the lollipop, he got back into the trick-or-treating and grabbed the candy by the handfuls to put in his pail.  He was a trick-or-treat natural!   He was a disgusting sticky mess by the end of it, and so was I.  He had drooled all down his arms and even on my toes. 

Next was popcorn and cotton candy.  He scarfed down the popcorn, but just acted like the cotton candy tickled him every time it got close.  Then we did another round of trick-or-treating (for Daddy’s sake since he missed the first round) while we waited for Savannah to jump in the bouncy houses.  I was able to shoot a couple quick pictures then. Josiah usually loves breakfast time and begs to eat while trying to climb into his highchair.  This morning however, he pitched a fit when we tried to feed him his oatmeal with fruit.  It took us the longest time to figure out the problem…he saw his candy pail on the counter next to where Jacob was making his oatmeal, yet it wasn’t candy that we were giving him!  Poor guy.  He ate hungrily, though, once he realized he wouldn’t be getting his way.