Repeat After Me: Trick or Treat!

What a fun night we had tonight.

You can't tell from this picture but we really did dress Kean up for Halloween.

Our first stop?  The Bodily's and before I could even get up to the house,

Kean had stripped off his monkey suit, walked into the "Gobily's" house

and started pounding down the candy.

Only problem is he forgot to take off the brown paper

around his Reese's Peanut Butter Cup-- and ate it too.

(Fiber, right?)

 It sure didn't take long for Kean to catch 

on to the fact he could get a treat at every house.

He quickly learned to say "Trick or Treat" and "thank you".

It did take him forever to catch on that he needed to keep

his costume on!

 In fact, at our neighbor, Gina Kwid's house the ol' costume came right off.

 And while he, yep, ate another piece of candy, I did

get a picture of these cute girls-- H, G, and R and their friends.

 We always spend the first hour or so of the night visiting

a handful of our dear neighbors and friends.

We love that tradition.

You'd think with the slower start it would cut down on the candy grab--

unfortunately (in my book but not the kids), that's not the case.

They get especially spoiled and come home with more candy

than should be legal for a child to have!

Snaggletooth

We're sad summer is coming to an end in a few short weeks.

Kean can't get enough of "swimmin' at Gobily's".

 And while he can't swim, he can go down

the slide until everyone's arms are exhausted from

catching him.

 He's learned a new trick though---

going down the slide on his tummy and his back!

 The boy is an absolute daredevil.

 And if he's not rocketing down the slide, he's jumping off

the diving board.

Evidently, plain ol' swimming is dull, dull, dull.

 He was on... oh, round 847 when he slipped and hit his face,

knocking out his other front tooth and scratching up his face a tiny bit.

He wasn't phased by the blood, just annoyed he had to get out of the pool

for a while.

And get this, the kids and their friends found his front tooth at the bottom of the deep end!!

The tooth fairy can finally come for him-- if he only cared.

Well, better than that, the "Sweet Tooth Fairy" came to our 

house in the form of our friend Shannon Bluth.

She brought her famous, mouthwatering strawberry pie.

Yes, it is as good as it looks.

 She saw that Kean got clocked in the face on the last day of summer

school and decided he needed a strawberry pie.

 Nothing makes you forget about a sore cheek than fresh strawberries

and a sweet crust, right?