Holidays are becoming funner and funner as Grady starts to recognize what they mean. This year he was pretty excited to dress up and get candy. When presented with the options of costumes it was touch and go between a pirate and Spiderman. Each day it changed. Finally, he decided on the pirate, but adamantly exclaimed, "I silly pirate, I not scary pirate." His Grandma and Grandpa had taken him to a Halloween house where a pirate jumped out of a box, thus resulting in Grady demanding he was a silly pirate.
The silly pirate theme was in name only. Grady ran around screaming "Yarrrrrrrrrrrrr!!" and slashing his dad in the face with his hook. He would also get in other kids faces and scream Yarrr and slash their faces, too. In reality he was more of a bully pirate, but he still had a blast. He failed to get into the full spirit of trick or treating, mainly because he was too scared of the other kids and people dressed up. But, he loved handing out the candy to the people that came to our door.
Grady LOVED the fact that he had grown facial hair. He just stared at himself in the mirror for ten minutes while telling his mom, "I so handsome, I handsome pirate." Note: The earring was a nice touch that lasted seconds. He was annoyed with it. Note II: That night when we washed off the mustache, after crying about it for a few minutes, through his tears, he looked up at his dad and said..."Dad, I shaved, I a man."
This year was also the first year that Grady was able to design his own pumpkin face. This was HUGE!! He talked about it for days and days, and would lay next to the pumpkins. He would tell his mom, "This is a big deal mom!"
Of course, the cutting was up to dad, with Grady right in the action. Adam really tried hard to cut right along the lines that Grady had drawn, but they were mainly footballs.
He was not a fan of the pumpkin guts...only a fan of the pumpkin.
He gave it a good college try. Mainly he just wanted to be right in the action. Adam was extremely sick of the question, "what you doing dad?" because it was asked about every three seconds.
Pure adoration and pride. Note: The football noses, extra eyes, and rectangle noses.
Very happy and proud. He did not leave this bench for hours. It was a great babysitter while we cleaned up the pumpkin messes.
Right before we departed for tricks or treats we had to light the pumpkins. By this time Grady had found a sword, which also caused significant damage to Adam's shins and legs. But, well worth it, as Grady loved Halloween. Note: Please disregard the half eaten, rotten pumpkins in the background...the deer have been feasting on them.
After trick or treating, we went to the church and helped Camille out with the Mutual Dance. Grady gorged himself on candy and junk. But he also danced with all the girls, and ran around like a mad man. When we finally got him home, he was sugar crashing, and exhausted. As he fell asleep he told us that Turkey Day is next, but he loved Pumpkin Day! Happy Halloween!!
