Halloween Night

Our Halloween festivities began with treats
at home and a birthday party.

Gill brought Aiden and Annsley over just in time for finger foods and sweet treats. We also had a birthday cake to celebrate Aiden's birthday earlier this week.







After all of the eating and opening of birthday presents we got the kids into their costumes and headed out to do a little trick or treating.
Camden was Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba!
It is his favorite show and Brobee is one of his favorite characters so when I came across the costume online we just had to have it.





It only took one house for Camden and Aiden to understand that the houses we were visiting were going to give them candy. Aiden handled saying trick-or-treat while Camden held out his bucket and said thank you. Brobee, Sponge Bob and a cute cow visited about ten of our neighbors while filling up their buckets with candy.





Everyone was pooped once we made it back home.



We managed to wrangle the candy away from Camden before getting him into the bath tub but not without a few tears. A bath was quickly followed by snuggles and bed time. It was a busy, crazy wonderful day that Camden, Brian and I loved.
(I hope Gill and her kiddos did too)
Happy Halloween!!

Just a Sneak Peak

This is just a taste of the oodles of pictures I will take later tonight as we take Camden trick-or-treating for the first time.
Feast your eyes on Brobee:


I have high hopes that I'll get a picture of him later where he's looking at the camera but I'm not holding my breath.

Puddles

Puddles always seem to be magnets for clean dry shoes.
The "lake" on our back porch is no exception.
Camden jumped right in and splashed about soaking his
socks, shoes and pants up to his knees.

Finger Painting

One rainy day last week I had the bright idea to finger paint with Camden. He loved smearing the paint around the paper and quickly discovered that it could be used as body paint as well.
After repeatedly saying "paint is for the paper-not for your body,"
I gave up and let him have at it.
Needless to say a bath quickly followed our painting session.







After all was said and done we had a clean boy fresh from the bath tub and Camden's first finger painting drying on the kitchen counter.

Big Boy Bike

Brian and I have talked about getting Camden a tricycle for quite a while but have hesitated to do so because he doesn't quite have the coordination to peddle by himself. Well, last weekend we finally gave into our desire for a tricycle but opted for one with a handle. Camden loves his new "bi-sick-ee!" Now we cruise the neighborhood and drive way in tricycle style with Camden at the wheel and Mommy or Daddy pushing him along.

Front Seat Driver

Camden isn't content with being a backseat driver.





Luckily I have a few more years (at least 13)
before I have to worry about him driving.
Although he he looks ready and has most of the motions down...may take off before I'm ready for him to.

The Tool Man

It's always amazing to me to see Camden be such a boy.
He LOVES his tools and will "fix" most anything around the house that he can hammer on or has a screw he can fit his screwdriver into.



This was one of the rare occasions I was able to snap a few pictures of him working on something other than the TV.
(which he continually gets into trouble for)