Happy Halloween

We had our first Cedar Rapids Halloween and fairly good weather.  By fairly I mean a temperature that would be considered tolerable and a breeze less than the 40 MPH winds we experienced throughout the week.  The city held trick or treating Sunday evening, which seemed a bit odd but this is the first time we've been trick or treating in 20 years so I'm not in a good position to argue otherwise.  For a warm up work held trick or treating for the employee's children on Thursday.  It took Quinny a while to warm up but once he got started it was "want some" and "more."  He didn't quite grasp the candy concept.  He's not yet two so we haven't been feeding him candy on the regular.  Tonight we found out why.  Oh, the highest of sugar highs and the lowest of sugar withdrawals. I thought the whole thing was a myth.  But after three suckers, one pack of M & M's and some skittles I'm a believer.  There is such a thing as a sugar high.  Upon finish the aforementioned candy he went ballistic.  He was screaming and moving a hundred miles an hour. We literally started running around the house - in circles for the next 45 minutes trying to bring him back down.  When he crashed, he crashed hard and we hopefully have a peacefully sleeping little hamburger. 

I can't imagine we don't live in a Halloween utopia.  I'm not sure if there is a single house here without children in it.  The entire neighborhood was either out trick or treating or happily greeting the hundreds of candy hoarders.  The majority of houses were decorated.  I fear we won't measure up come Christmas time.  I have house decoration envy.  We feel good that so many of our neighbors are in the same place in life raising families and are so friendly.  We've definitely hit the jackpot in that respect.

Quinny was a hit in his hamburger costume and we didn't see a single other burger in the neighborhood.  Gavin and Lucky joined the caravan around town.  Gavin had a little pumpkin onesie on but it was too chilly for him to be exposed so he was all bundled up and tucked into his stroller.  Lucky wore is badger red bandanna and enjoyed the walk around to see all the people.  Being out trick or treating instead of in waiting for the trick or treaters means we have far too much candy left over, which is slowly being devoured by me. 

Outside of having too much candy we had a fairly quiet weekend.  Quinny carved his first pumpkin but was more interested in allowing me to do the dirty work.  Shockingly he didn't want to plunge his little paws into the orange goo and start scooping out.  We carved a little happy face into his pumpkin and lit it up for the first time.  Quentin definitely got a kick of lighting it up.  Pumpkin!  Orange!  It was a good time to see Halloween from a different perspective. 

Here are some pics of Quinny posing on the proch before we headed out for our bounty of candy.  A picture of Gavin in his costume and one of Q returning enjoying his first ever sucker.