Austen went to a Halloween party at her friend Dean’s house. Dean also has a little brother, Theo, but he’s too young to register on Austen’s radar.
Austen was dressed up as a cow (thank you Morgan for letting me borrow your costume!). Austen’s friend, Riley was also dressed up as cow. It was cute to see them together.
It was a little chilly but everyone still enjoyed playing outside. The 55-60 degree whether helped promote many physical activities such as frisbee throwing, hoola-hooping, riding bikes and cars, running around, throwing balls, etc.
Mama and Dada enjoyed holding baby Theo; he was very mellow and didn’t mind just hanging out. Most of the time Austen was too occupied playing with her friends to notice but occasionally she saw and came over. The first few times, she didn’t seem to mind much. Maybe she thought Theo was just a dinosaur animal because of his outfit? Then, she put some rings on his head. Eventually, she realized that was a baby and that was not allowed so Theo had to be passed on to another grown up.
There were plenty of yummy treats including cupcakes, cookies, chocoloate, lollipops, pumpkin doughnuts, warm apple cider, pigs-in-a-blanket, etc. Despite the temperature, we even ate home-made pumpkin ice cream! It tasted great and was hard to resist.
The party was briefly interrupted by a tickle-fest.
We’ll give Riley’s Dada (Sanjiv) the benefit of the cold whether as an excuse to be playing with the hoola-hoop.