Singing ABCD's

I can sing my ABC's, or as I like to call them ABCD's, all by myself now! 

Night Eyes

At the zoo every year they have an event called Night Eyes and since Brayden was a little older this year we decided we would go.  We went with our friends Steph, Kenzie and Caitlin.  Businesses around town have set up booths and you walk through and collect candy.  Brayden was funny because he didn't really care about the animals but he was excited to see the lions and the monkeys.  There were a lot of new people there so he got a little shy.  One of his favorite activities were the jugglers outside of the zoo.  Brayden informed me "I juggle.  Daddy juggle." and that was followed by him moving his hands as if he were juggling something.  He is right as Andrew is a pretty good juggler.  Brayden wore his race car driver costume and I went as a football player.

Brayden and Mommy ready to go to Night Eyes.

We were trying to show off the back of our costumes.  Brayden decided to turn all the way around.

At the Zoo with Caitlin and Steph.  Caitlin was a very cute Ladybug.

This is one of Brayden and Caitlin's favorite poses, or maybe you could say Steph and I enjoy putting their heads in these picture cut-outs :) Thanks Kenzie for taking the picture!

See the lion over there Caitlin.

So cute.

Grandma Becky gave Brayden a Clifford Halloween book and it has become one of Brayden's favorite books so when we saw Clifford Brayden was so excited.  He liked Clifford until we got up close.

On a funny side note, the last time we posed with Clifford was at the State Fair when I lost my camera.  Thank goodness we got our picture and I still left with my camera!

Halloween

Happy Halloween!  As Brayden would say "trick treat".   We had gorgeous weather for Beggars night so we were very excited to take Brayden trick or treating around our neighborhood.  I knew we had lots of kids in our neighborhood but I didn't realize how many.   I had bought 6 bags of candy and we almost ran out.  Andrew took Brayden and did one side of our street and then they came home and warmed up for a bit and Brayden and I went and did the other side of the street.  Brayden was so cute in his "race driver" costume.  He loves cars so this was a great costume for him. 

When we went up to our neighbors doors Brayden was very excited to ring the bell but then when the people would answer the door he would sometimes get shy.  At almost every house though Brayden did say "trick treat".  When people gave him the option to pick one he would usually just look at the bowl as he was trying to decide what his best choice would be.  He was also very good about using his manners and saying thank you.  One of the best parts of our experience was the animals we saw.  One of our neighbors had a cat that came right up to the door and Brayden was most excited about petting the cat.  Another neighbor had a dog that Brayden got to pet.  As we were leaving Brayden said "Where's Zoey?"  Zoey would be our daycare providers dog.  So when I asked Brayden where Zoe was he said "At Jodi's house". 

Here are some pictures of Brayden dressed up in his costume.

No Mommy I am not going to eat these.  I will help pass them out to other trick-or-treaters of course.

 I got my bag and I am all ready to go!

 Taking a break after doing a few of our neighbors.  We have a big hill to walk and that is a long ways for such little legs!

 Dumping out what is left of the candy.

Being silly with Daddy.  Brayden and Daddy had the same hat.