Moving Day!!!

We also had another big activity over Thanksgiving weekend (besides eating all weekend).  We moved into our new house!!  Here is a photo we took the first weekend of November when it was nearly finished.   

Unfortunately, the move was very rushed with less than a week to go before the arrival of the baby, so we didn't get a chance to take pictures of the inside.  Once we're settled, I'll post some more :)

Feels like fall

We had such a warm October (I don't think we ever even needed to wear a jacket!), it was starting to feel like we weren't going to have a fall (my favorite season!).  But, right after Halloween, the leaves started to fall, and Max got to have his first experience helping Daddy rake...  

 And more importantly, he played in the pile of leaves for the first time...

 I think Max loves fall as much as I do :)

It wasn't long before all of the holiday stuff started, which was good, because Max was getting pretty frustrated looking for pumpkins and scarecrows and not finding any.  Just before Thanksgiving, we went to the tree lighting in the Town Center of our new neighborhood.  There were carolers and Max got to roast marshmallows and make his first smores :)

Thanksgiving weekend, the Denver Zoo started their spectacular Zoo Lights Christmas display, so we bundled up and took Max on our last family outing before the arrival of his baby brother or sister.

Trick-Or-Treat!

Yes, I am posting these very, very late and back-dating them since I didn't have time to post them sooner.  I don't want anything to be missing :) 

Halloween was very fun, and Max was very sad when it was over.  Luckily, there were pumpkins and scarecrows around for a few weeks after :) 

The week before Trick-or-Treat we had a pumpkin carving party at our friends' house.  Max was very excited and actually did some of the carving...

And then it was fnally time for Trick-or Treat!  But this time, Max was very excited about his monkey costume and loved wearing it.  We went to the neighborhood where we're building our new house and trick-or-treated with some of our friends.

Max wasn't quite sure about it at first.  He's still in his phase of not liking new things, so we had to take him up to each door...

But soon, he worked up the courage to try it by himself :)

And he became one of the crowd in no time :)

The best part about it was that Max still doesn't know what candy is, so he was more excited to get to as many houses as possible so he could keep saying "Trick-or-treat!"  It was adorable.  Even after this, he still didn't ask to try any candy...

When we got back to our friends' house, we finally let Max have one (and his only) piece of Halloween candy.  We then quickly replaced all of the candy in his pumpkin with new Matchbox cars and other little toys.  He was thrilled!  And we we equally thrilled that he hasn't realized what candy is yet :)

Max's friend also gave him this Thomas the Train costume, but after about 10 seconds of wearing it, he wanted it off.  Good thing he liked the monkey so much!

Here's one more picture of a pumpkin patch... what are we going to do for weekend entertainment now that Haloween is over?!?

Halloween Party at the Children's Museum

Max kicked off his first official Halloween in the US by dressing up for a party at the Children's Museum.  And what better costume for my little monkey, than a monkey :)  It took a little convincing to get him into his costume, but once he found out has friend Peter was dressing up as a monkey too, he finally gave in.  When we got there, we found his adorable friend Olivia the ladybug :)

He still wasn't completely convinced that he wanted to stay in the monkey costume, but as more and more kids arrived, he actually started to like it.

After a few trick-or-treating stations, and lots of playing with scarecrows and pumpkins, Max was very happy to see his fellow monkey, Peter...

But, that lasted about 2.5 seconds and Max was ready to resume his jumping off of haybales...

The party was the perfect lead-up to the main event 2 days later - TRICK-OR-TREAT!!!  More pictures to come soon!