Boo!!! Happy Halloween!!

Wow, what a week this past week was. I have been busy with my typical nanny jobs (Tuesday/Friday with the Schulers, Wednesday at WAC, and Thursday's at Meaghan's-fairly new job). On top of this I was the chauffeur for another family that I have nannied for since the 11 year old was 2 1/2!! I accepted this job last October 2007 so I couldn't back out even though I so wanted to. I didn't have the energy nor did I really want to run her kids all over and drive an average of 50 miles a day just for this family. Anyhow, that's an entire different story.

We got home from our trip and literally woke up and went to the pumpkin patch with Justin & Julia. Much fun was had!! We got some really fun pumpkins!! Wednesday was the next fun activity! Aidan's preschool had a pumpkin carving night! John was able to get off work early and go with us. That was the only way Aidan was gong to be able to go unless my mom came with me. So, we went, carved pumpkins and then I left to go be the chauffeur. I missed the last 1/2 of the evening which his teacher said was the best part!! I was pretty bummed but there is always next year.

So, Thursday was his class party and everyone was dressed up. He didn't know what to think. Another mom wanted to take his picture and he turned and hugged me with a death grip and was a bit freaked out I think. He didn't understand that his cute costume was fun and she wanted to take a picture of how cute he was. Oh well. I got him into his class and he warmed up quite quickly. His teacher Lori, was there and I explained what had just happened and she told me that was normal. I didn't doubt that he would be fine but I wanted to give the heads up in case he wasn't.

I went to the party that afternoon for the last 5 minutes or so and got a fun video that I'll try and post onto here with a bunch of pictures. They were singing the hokey poky but it was the spooky hooky...I think. After he was out of school we played chauffeur....again.

Friday, we nannied at the Schulers and had a great time getting everyone in their costumes. Aidan needed help but Emily and Nathan didn't since they are older. It was fun none the less. I got a fun photo of the three of them!! So, after we were the chauffer...again...Aidan and I went to a party at Cadence's house!! That was so fun!! He played pin the smile on the Jack-o-lantern. He was spot on and everyone else was on the wall. He was even blindfolded!!! I was so excited for him!. We split a carmel apple and he had fun playing some fun games including musical tombstones. We also made a fun picture frame!! Pretty soon the party was over and we were off to our home to get some ingredients for dinner.

We headed to my mom's house WITH John!! He was able to get off at a relatively normal time!! John and Aidan went trick-or-treating...after we coached Aidan a few times at Nana's house. I stayed with Nana, helped pass out candy, and made some YUMMY french bread pizza's!! John and Aidan came back after about 45 minutes and were ready for dinner. We put the dressing on the salad and I made their pizzas and we ate. Aidan thought it was the best to pass out candy to whomever came to our door. We were sitting down relaxing in the family room before we left and Aidan kept jumping up to see if people were at the door so he could pass out more candy!! It was so cute!!

We headed home and as I was walking toward our stairs I noticed that a pumpkin had been smashed. I felt badly for the person who's pumpkin had been smashed. That's when it dawned on me to check our deck. I looked up and Aidan's pumpkin was missing. We had never lit the thing (although it was crawling with fruit flies and already for the most part smooshy. It was GROSS!!! His lid was still on the deck/patio and my pumpkin was still there. After having 5 Halloween's here, and the most major of things to go wrong was our candy that was put out on our deck was stolen. Now this. Both times I have been pregnant. I was livid!!!!!

I guess we are pretty lucky that it was only his pumpkin and that none of his toys on the deck had been stolen too. Aidan didn't notice until the next morning since he was asleep when we got home. I told him that I would share my pumpkin with him. He was satisfied with that thankfully. Anyhoo, its bath time for little man. We hope that you had a wonderful and safe Halloween!! Oh another funny thing as trick-or-treaters were leaving my mom's Aidan would yell "BOO!!!" at them!! John, my mom and I all got a good kick out of it!! We'll see what he thinks next year!!