Spooktober

In our house we were just counting down the days until we reached October. Each of us had different reasons for the countdown, but all nonetheless could wait for October.
Oak-because he has been so into spooky could not wait for Halloween in all its spookiness to be here.
Krista-because October might be my favorite month with all the leaves changing and cooler weather, pumpkin farms, and I was hoping against all hope that Halloween just might have been the climax to Oak's "fooky" face.

Well, with Halloween come and gone, I can assure you that we are not out of our "fooky" phase quite yet. In fact, just yesterday we made a turkey craft and Oak said it is a vampire turkey! Man! I really thought that it would end! Our little Tim Burton!

October really was an incredible month and continues to be one of my favorite months! One great thing about October is that since Oak is so into spooky that I could get him to do a number of different crafts with me. We made pumpkins, skeletons, spiderwebs, bat cookies, bat costumes and frankenstein cups.

Oak, Lawson and I went to a pumpkin farm with some good friends, including a stop at Starbucks before for some Hot apple cider for mommy and Hot Chocolate for Oak, a spooky corn maze and a spooky hayride. This was all right up Oak's alley.

Brian and opted to leave Lawson at home and take just Oak to the NC State fair, which lately has bitten us in the butt. Oak now asks if we can leave Lawson at home whenever we are going somewhere fun. Oak had a blast again this year at the fair! His favorite thing to do was this pirate obstacle course, and chose cotton candy as his fair snack. He was however, extrememly disappointed in that there was not a haunted house!

We also went to a spooky story time at the Library, which was a blast!

Ahhh! The climax of October has definetly has been Halloween. Oak invited about 6 friends over to our house for a Halloween party the Friday before Halloween! It was so fun to have his friends over in all their costumes and just play and have a good time. Oak picked out all of our food, mummy dogs, sandwitches, frankenstein cups, and spider web cookies. We also had a punch that he was very insistent about putting a frozen hand in, but I nixed that plan.

Finally, Halloween! Wow! Oak picked that this year he wanted to be a vampire and a vampire he was! I couldn't believe that we actually found a vampire costume in his size. Seriously, do other kids his age want to be vampires? Where are you moms? Let's maybe start a support group! Brian completed the look with some fabulous make up and some great hair!

Here are the pictures....if you picture Oak as a sweet innocent little one, please don't look, your eyes might be scarred forever!