Halloween

Taking a small break from the Houston posts to post about our fun Halloween!

This picture shows Barrett last year and this year in his (so far) traditional Gymboree skeleton jammies.  He's also on the same blanket (which he now sleeps with) AND both pictures were taken in Texas (that's just a coincidence).  In the picture on the left, we were living in Grapevine (the Dallas area) and in the right, we were vacationing/visiting Daddy in Houston.  

It's so fun to see how big he's gotten!

Our Halloween was very busy and kind of crazy since Bear didn't take a nap!
We started out in his giraffe costume and went to gymnastics.

He's in gymnastics with my cousin's daughter Soleil- she's the one who was born just 1 day before Bear.

LaLa came to watch and play today too.

It was Bear's and Soleil's turn to jump together and Bear wanted to stay by my mom and Soleil wanted to come jump by me!  She was darling!

They got suckers at the end of class and didn't care too much about getting their picture taken.

In the afternoon, Bear had a costume change into his skeleton jammies and he helped clean out the pumpkins for carving.

 He really hated the guts at first,

but it didn't take long before he was having fun with it.

Next he changed into his Chinese dragon warrior costume.  My parents just got back from China and they brought him this cute little outfit.  The hat his hilarious and has a long black braid attached to it (you can kind of see it hanging over his left shoulder).

We all went over to visit Grandma GiGi, who recently fell but is looking so much better! That's Max in the scary mask if you were wondering.

Next we went to Grandma CC's.  We feel really lucky to live so close to so much of our family! Bear loves seeing his grandmas!

Next we headed to Grandma and Papa Johnson's.
Papa was given a silk Chinese outfit when he was little too!

Grandma and Bear.

Lola and Leah were over as well.  Lola was a dinosaur.

Leah was a clown and I was an Indian.

The final costume of the day was his pirate pajamas.  My mom was Harry Potter (she's not wearing her HP glasses in this pic though).

Here's the HP glasses.

We put Bear to bed and carved pumpkins.

We normally do pumpkins earlier than Halloween night, but since we were out of town and my parents were out of town too, we just never got around to it!