The one-eyed [two]-horned [crawling blue brownie] eater

Title: Special liberties taken from the original classic: Bopper Big, Flying Purple People Eater lyrics *Caleb LOVES brownies by the way.

We got Caleb a cute blue monster costume this year from Old Navy (with the goings-on with our move, I am glad I bought it well in advance or else we may have totally overlooked Halloween this year-and that would have been such a shame since I love it!) ...anyway I definitely didn't have the time, energy or motivation to make a costume again this year. We were planning on going downtown to visit Justin at work and participate in his work-sponsored family activities but with Hurricane Sandy wrecking havoc on the East coast and causing problems with GS's servers, it also created problems at Justin's SLC office. So the activities were cancelled, bummer.

So instead we packed up and headed to the Living Planet Aquarium for their Halloween festivities. Caleb loves looking through the displays and tanks at the colorful fish. He wasn't such a fan of wearing his costume while in his stroller but I can't blame him, for it to be the last day of October it was really warm out. After the aquarium we came home and made pumpkin jello jigglers and mummified hot dogs and passed out candy to the kids that came by.

Caleb and his cousin, Emma. 

The front of our home! We have quite a bit to do in the whole curb appeal department!

I think, or I know (in my opinion), it really isn't worth getting a costume for a child that doesn't walk or talk and especially if you aren't going out in public on Halloween. But it is worth it for pictures-sake and the memories. But I am looking forward to next year when Caleb is walking and hopefully can say "Trick or Treat"-it will definitely make the holiday more fun for the whole family.

And just as a quick update on Caleb... ever since we moved into our home he has been taking off developmentally. He can move around however he pleases, although most of the time that means scooting on his bum. But he can transition from laying to sitting to crawling and he does it frequently. He tries crawling up the stairs but has only made it past the first step once. He is pulling himself up to standing in his crib constantly now and that is much easier for him since he has learned to get into the kneeling position. We had some genetic testing on him which took 4 weeks and we got the results back this Monday that everything is normal! That was a relief. We transferred his Kids on the Move file to the Jordan School district program (Jordan Child Development Center). They come out on the 14th to begin physical therapy with him again. I think our goal now is just to get him walking! Or at least that is the only goal left on our original IFSP that he hasn't achieved. I can't get over how big he is getting either. I love seeing his progress and how he is figuring out things on his own.