One week until Halloween...

We made a trip to a local community parade this morning. With all the family nephews and nieces in haul & big bags for collecting candy, we sat along the parade line chasing down candy and ghosts. Ethan lasted all about two minutes collecting candy. He couldn't resist sitting and eating one of his prize possession suckers. He sat through the rest of the parade eating his sucker while hundreds of kids went crazy competing for candy being thrown from parade vendors. I tried to get him more excited about the event, but he wasn't having it. I think for Ethan, it was a tad bit overwhelming. There were a lot of loud horns, music, and strangely dressed people walking around everywhere. I held him in my arms half the time, but I did get him dancing once or twice while in my arms. We still had a fabulously fun time! My mother was able to collect quite a bit of candy for Ethan, so we brought home half a bag of various kinds of candies. It should last us a good year. Laugh. More than likely, when Halloween arrives, we'll visit a few houses for more candy. Halloween is short lived at this age. Toddlers don't have a lot of energy or patience for trick or treating. The big challenge is getting them to keep their costumes on. Already, Ethan has decided he wants nothing to do with his costume. Laugh. I've attempted to find a new costume for him, but have had very little success. Looks like I'll have glue his "car costume" on him come Halloween night. I'm just hoping to get some pictures of him in his car costume..it's so darn cute! All I really want for Ethan this Halloween is for him to have an opportunity to realize the fun that is "Halloween". It's tough at this age for them to truly understand the purpose of the holiday. In one or two more years, he'll be chasing down doors for candy on Halloween. I can hardly wait to watch him in action...this year, it's about introducing him to the idea of Halloween and visiting houses for "treats". We'll bring along Papa and maybe do some trick or treating with Ethan's cousin, Myels. We're keeping things simple this year for Halloween.

There's been a small delay in starting the next class album. I'm waiting on two very important products from OA. Since I'm now officially employed with OA (wait, did I just say that? Woops! Yep, I'm working at the OA office...woohoo!!!!!!), I'm even more excited to be working with OA product for this class project. The "Good Cheer" line is my favorite line of their latest product releases. It's festive, old fashion feel totally appeals to me. Who doesn't love a dancing snowman? His cheerful grin and black top hat reminds me of "Frosty the Snowman" from my younger years. Love Frosty. OA just started shipping the new "Good Cheer" line to retailers, so be on the look out for it at one of your local scrapbook stores. If you happen to create something using the new "Good Cheer" line, I would love to see a picture of your project. Email it to me at retrospection30@gmail.com. Thanks so much!