Halloween Party

Every year a friend of ours mom throws a Halloween Party for the kiddos.  We went the first year Kayden was born, but last year we weren't able to go because we were out of town, so we were excited when it came around again this year.  Kayden had a lot of fun playing with all the kids.  He is really becoming very social and learning that he can go and play and be ok.  We went through a phase where he stayed really close to me and Kyle, so, for him to be out and running around with the other kids is a lot of fun to watch.

At the Halloween party you take a pumpkin and get to carve it.  This is Kayden's first experience with carving pumpkins.  The last two years we just drew faces on them with a black sharpie and called it good, but this year we decided to actually carve it.  And Kayden seemed to really enjoy it.

Mary and Dennis, the party hosts, really go all out with their decorations and fun kid games.  We had to leave a bit early and weren't able to finish playing all the games, but there are fun prizes at the end for the winners and fun little goodie bags for everyone to take home.  It is a lot of fun for all the kids.

Kayden really seems to enjoy watching everyone and was really proud of his pumpkin when it was finished.  He carried it around and put it in line with all the other finished, carved pumpkins.  It was cute.

Ok, so now for the pictures.

Playing in the Leaves

Cindy, Charlie, Kayden and myself all raked up the leaves yesterday so the kids could play in them.  They had a TON of fun and here are the pictures to prove it!

Raking Leaves

Kayden is such a big helper!  We went outside today to rake up all the leaves and he did an amazing job.  He loves getting to do what the grown ups can do!  Here are some pictures!

This is where he lifted his wheel barrow up to try and dump his leaves into the yard waste container, but he was too short so they just all fell all over the driveway.  He looked at me just defeated.  So, we picked them up together and I dumped them in the container from this point forward!