Arrrghhhh!!!

Here's my little pirate. I'm so glad HE chose to be a pirate this year because his years of wearing "cute" costumes is coming to an end. I didn't want to have to MAKE him be a pirate. He will no doubt want to be something scary, bloody, and disgusting before long and I was determined to have a pirate picture for my Halloween album.

We went trick-or-treating last night with Mike, who drove up for the weekend. We first went over to Oma and Opa's house where he not only got candy but legos as well. He wasn't having any visiting though we had to get moving. There was candy with his name on it! We came back home and went around our neighborhood then headed over to the neighboring hood. Farmington is HUGE! We made it about half way through before Mike suggested we start heading back towards our house. Good thing he did because shortly after turning for home Jayke no longer wanted to trick-or-treat. Mike thought as long as we were heading for the house he could hit all the houses along the way. He went willingly at first but soon was yelling at us, "I DON'T WANT TO TRICK-OR-TREAT ANYMORE! I WILL NOT GO TO ONE MORE HOUSE! MY FEET HURT!"

When we got back to the house we had to "inspect" his candy. This is just what parents tell the kids so they can pick out the pieces they want. Jayke was kind enough to give Mike and me each a Reese's cup, which is both of our favorites. They left shortly after to go back to Mike's parent's house where Jayke could trick-or-treat...and hopefully get more Reese's cups.

Today I had to load the pirate up and take him over to my dad's to trick-or-treat. Halloween turned out to be just like Christmas...never ending. We had already gone trick-or-treating at the nursing home on Thursday. Grammy got to see Jayke in his costume, of course she didn't know who he was until she saw my mom and me standing over to the side. I would say total he got about 4 buckets of candy. I think I will be hauling some of it in to work to fill my candy bowl in my office. God knows I don't need 4 buckets of candy sittin' around my house waiting to make it's way to my butt and thighs! Jayke certaing won't miss it either!